I talked to Dr. Park yesterday, as suspected-the Radiologist said that unless there was a huge hemorrhage in my brain-the MRI wouldn't show it...And I'd probably be dead anyway.
So we are going forward with having the MRA done.
I asked Dr. Park if this referral would go through as "standard" or "urgent" because I've had issues with this, the time frame of "standard" is about 5 days and the time frame of "urgent" is 1 day. Dr. Park said that he would do it as a standard referral-he didn't think this was an emergency-if anything-I have a "slow leak" and if it was anything more, something would have happened by now. That's comforting. I told him how I realized, after staying off of the Clonazapam, and not getting knocked out-my head hurts worse when I lay down, how I cannot go to sleep without taking the Clonazapam-to knock me out because of the pain and I find myself with my head tilted off of the bed whenever I wake up. It was a miserable weekend, and I was scared.
But, I told him that if he's not worried about this enough to have the referral done ASAP, then I trusted him. And I told him that the Tylenol 3 helped with the pain I was having during the day, but obviously the pain that I was having at night-when I lay down is too much and the Tylenol3 doesn't help. I needed something to help me sleep. He called in Ambien. Awesome, Ambien rocks.
I reminded him how a standard referral takes 1 week and, like it happened with my MRI, I had to wait a week to get an appointment. He said that he wouldn't let that happen, that I would hear from him towards the end of the week and he would make sure that the hospital gets me in for the MRA ASAP, so I wouldn't have to wait two weeks. Apparently I would have it done at the hospital, not where I had the MRI.
He said I would hear from him later in the week and we would set it up.
Oddly enough though, I woke up this morning to a voice mail from the Imaging place calling to set up my MRA. I thought I wouldn't have it done until early next week-at the hospital-and the Imaging place called me today. Weird.
Anyway, I have my appointment for the MRA on Thursday at 4. I made an appointment to see Dr. Park on Monday at 2.
I'm glad that my doctor isn't letting time drag on, that he wants all of the pieces of the puzzle. Yes, I'm grateful for that. I have a feeling though, that after having the MRA isn't going to make my head hurt any less-for one reason or another.
OK, off to watch baseball. Did I mention that my head hurts?
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