My brain is starting to hurt. The second chapter of my A&P textbook is all chemistry. I had hoped I had left Avogadro's number behind when I took college chemistry as a junior in high school (did I ever explain here that I went to a teeny tiny school--my graduating class was 7 people--where classes like math and chemistry had to be done as dual ( Read more... )

Just found out that the "anomaly" on my original MRI was just that: an anomaly. NOTHING, I repeat, NOTHING was there on the scan this time!!!!!! Thank you Jesus.

I was having a freak out the Sunday before the MRI, going through all of the horrible possibilities. Mom actually yelled at me (now a rare occurrence) that I was NOT ALLOWED TO THINK THAT ( Read more... )

Had my second MRI, this time with contrast, Tuesday at 6-fucking-30 in the morning. It was freezing outside, with a windchill of lower 20s (and even colder with the ridiculously strong wind gusts). It turned out that the damn thing was scheduled at the other charity hospital in town, not the one where my neurologist is based. Joy. While Ben Taub ( Read more... )