Waiging at the Seton Inn

I have never spent time in the hospital, except for when I was born and even without  a lesion in my brain I wouldn't remember that!  I've not even visited many people in the hospital so this was all new to me.  I am happy to report that everyone at Seton main hospital was so wonderful - all very caring and pleasant and very attentive (VERY) people.  They are good at their jobs and I felt in very good hands.  I can even say the food wasn't as terrible as I expected (maybe I should be happy for the dulled sense of taste?)but it wasn't picture worthy and the P Terry's Ben brought me Thursday night was just the best!!
So Thursday I got my fall risk bracelet and went upstairs to room 637 - home for the next two nights.  Thursday evening we did a CT scan, if it is a tumor they were worried it might have metastasized from another site, but the scan was clear so if it was a tumor it was the only one we were dealing with .  GOOD NEWS. 

Walker, Texas Fall Risk.

I slept well, not sure Ben did in his recliner but brilliant man that he is he thought to bring my toothbrush which made everything better.  I even slept through several vital checks by Princess and the night crew.  Friday morning Occupational and Physical Threrapy came to see me and got me totally hooked up with the latest in hospital fashion. Walker - check. Safety harness so Ben or staff can keep me upright - check, and the magic glasses.  The glasses are the lowest tech vision correcting device ever.  I LOVE IT. Makes me feel old school.  Just reading glasses with some opaque tape in the right corner of the left lens. totally takes away the duplicate images - amazing!  So now we could go for some short walks down the hallway and escape our room.

Also had a lumbar puncture on Friday morning and got to see my very own Cerebral-spinal fluid!  Another fun scientist first.  They'll use that to test for MS and i think they can look to see if there are any funny cancerous looking cells in there too.  

But there is a lot of waiting when you are a patient.  And we are not patient patients. Gives you a lot of time to think and gave Ben and I some good time together to just be and talk. We don't do that often enough. And I spent a lot of time texting and talking to people I love so I guess waiting isn't all bad. But about noon on Friday the neurologists said they had talked to the neurosurgeon and he saw the films and said "Yeah I can get in there'. So they thought biopsy on Monday so we could find out what this thing is.  He was coming to talk to us and then we could go HOME.  OH what a word.  So we waited.,...for another 24 hours! They said he was worth the wait.