Shrink it real good

not to scale

It's still shrinking!  One thing I love about Dr. Valliant is he always gets to the point quickly.  He always says hello and asks how I'm doing and then "well your MRI looks great, want to go see?" YES!  They always do two - one with 'contrast' (a dye to help things stand out) and one without.  On the 'without' the radiologist added an arrow so we could find it because its so small you can barely see it unless you really know what you're looking for.  =) On the 'contrast' film, you can still see the spot, but it is much smaller and it now just looks like a halo of white rather than a black filled  (blood) lesion.

He said what remains may just be inflammation - hard to know.   Dr. Rose was there - he was the neurologist I saw in the hospital who first said it was vascular.  I hadn't seen him since the hospital but he said "You're a teacher right?  Biology?" - so he remembered!  He looked at the films and said I must've been real good to get this kind of early Christmas present.  I think it's just having all of you on my side!  He also reminded us that he 'told us so' that it was vascular.  You go on and gloat Dr. Rose, I'm glad you were right!

Ben wasn't able to go (he tried to convince me to record the whole appointment so I wouldn't forget to tell him anything) and he wanted to know - what now?  The answer is the same - nothing, wait and see, another MRI in 6 months. They said I will probably continue to improve...S...L...O...W...L....Y, but if I keep working at it its possible.  I can do that. 

So it was a good good day.  Denver next week and we will celebrate some more.  Thank you thank you again for being my warriors - it means so much.