The Inside of My Head

I had my MRI this morning. Their main focus was to look at my brain and my spinal cord. The MRI wasn't nearly as bad as it was yesterday. I only had one needle today and that was to put some stuff in my body so I'm guessing the could make my organs glow. I keep hoping the stuff will make me pee neon green but no such luck yet. The MRI tube freaked me out a little, but it wasn't bad. Luckily Jack was awake a lot last night so I was able to doze.

I'll probably meet with the Doctor next week to go over the results of all these tests. I didn't really go into detail what they were looking for, because I was still digesting it myself. The doctor ordered the MRI to basically rule out MS. At this point he doesn't think it's MS but the doctor thinks it may be something called Guillain-Barre Syndrome. This is a syndrome in where my immune system may be attacking my peripheral nervous system. Sometimes it just goes away and sometimes a person needs to be admitted for treatment. So if what I have is Guillain Barre Syndrome, we are basically monitoring me to so see if I get worse. Which is more difficult than one would think, because I can't feel my hands or feet, so how do I know?

So basically there are still a lot of questions to be answered, and we should have answers soon. It's just a waiting game basically.

I'm actually surprised at how calm I am. I'm looking at this practically. What else can I do? The one thing I really want though is to see the pictures of my brain. How cool would that be?

So that's it for today. More information pending. Here is a link to information on Guillain-Barre Syndrome: http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/gbs/gbs.htm