DAD

Happy Monday! Did you all have a good weekend?  Mine was a nightmare - Friday morning when I got out of bed. I stood up and I had the sensation the  room was spinning and whirling all around me and it lasted about15 seconds.  It happened a few more times during the day but only lasted a few seconds each time. Friday night I laid down and whammo it happened again and it didn't go away. The room felt like it was spinning around me and my vision was distorted at the same time. I couldn't find the bed post to hold onto because it was bouncing up and down in my vision and I ended up falling on the floor. It probably only lasted a minute but felt like an eternity and it scared me enough to go to the ER. They did a CAT Scan and  the ER doctor says "I have bad news for you, you have a brain tumor" WHAT? He showed me the CAT Scan and sure enough there was a white out section and I was admited so I would have an MRI and see a neurosurgeon ASAP. My husband and I were in a state of shock to say the least. On Saturday they did the MRI and MRA  and I was taken back down 4 hours later for another MRI. The neurologist came and saw me Saturday night and announced I had two different types of tumors. TWO????  You got to be kidding me. He wrote an order for a consult with a  neurosurgeon to come see me. To make the rest of this long story short - the neurosurgeon arrived late Sunday night and told me they were benign tumors, were not the cause of my symptoms and small and I didn't require surgery at this time but would need an MRI every 6 months to a year.  So after 48 hours of terror that part was finally over.

I want to thank everyone for the prayers, good wishes and the awesome friendship bestowed upon me. I have the best friends in the world and cannot imagine a world without you - thank you , you made it all bearable and love you .

 I am sitting here in my hospital bed still having vertigo when I mov my head in different directions. Everyone put the reason I came to the hospital on hold when the tumors were found. So we will see.... maybe they will send me home today and tell me to see a specialist as an out patient. I'm kind of tired of looking at four walls...

This is a card I made my father several weeks ago and to be honest I forget everything I used to make it and all the info is at home. It's funny for when I saw this image it instantly reminded me of my father who is 89 years old. He has no butt and his blue jeans were always falling off of his waist and he never sat still - after work and weekends and was always tinkering with something in the house.

  I love the paper I found in my stash for it looks just like ceramic tile!

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And, even though my father really doesn't look like the below image - it still reminded me him because he is always spilling his coffee. 

So hopefully I get to go home today or they find out what is causing this vertigo either way have a great week!

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