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If you had asked me about my health on 6/21 or earlier I would have described myself as generally healthy with a dogshit back and terrible sinuses. We live in the high desert where it’s dusty and dry as fuck and I never thought twice about my waking up with a splitting sinus headache and eating tylenol sinus tablets. Same with the back, chronic spine pain runs in my family and I’d pretty much resigned myself to being on pain meds for the rest of my life. My last back surgery (#7) was almost a year ago and it was a total failure.
On 6/22 I was playing FF16 when my wife found me on the floor having a seizure. I have never had a seizure before nor had I known I was prone to have one. She immediately freaked out and called 911. That turns out to have been the 100% correct move.
I have zero memory of most of this , some of what I know is from what she told me and what I read in the hospital discharge reports.
My first memory of this is being told I was in a CT machine at our local dinky hospital and I had a mass in my right brain that wasn’t supposed to be there. Turns out I had a brain tumor for who knows how long and it was only in my head.
Flash forward to seeing my brother in Las Vegas, I’ve been trying to get him to come to the city since I moved here and there he was! I said why the fuck are you here, then why am I here?! I was in a hospital bed in the ICU ward and apparently had been there for a week. I remember none of it.
You come to Vegas for fun, gaming , for concerts , you do not come here for health care! I live in a town where brothels are 100% legal, you can buy a case of vodka at CVS with 9 cartons of cigarettes and then go across the street and get some legal weed, it’s right beside the gun store.
Need a good doctor? Hahah fuck you. I checked out of the hospital on the 30th of June, I found out on 7/24 that I was supposed to follow up with a neurologist ... .Seriously wtf? I didn’t know why I had a seizure, so I promised my wife I would not play any games until I was told differently by a doctor. I see her point (I was playing FF16 when she found me) but fuuuuuckkkk it sucks not being able to play a game.
It’s a really good thing I never cared about my hair. I’m now sporting the zipper-head 2023 cut (scar temple to temple). Depending next week on what the radiation oncologist says , I may get the chance to experience baldness. Still don’t know if this is something I can laugh about in a few years or if I need to start getting yeet money together to Lamar Odom it up (that brothel is only a 15 minute drive from my front door).
The tumor is gone, but the long road of follow up begins. Weirdly this is semi-exciting as I do not know how much of the crippling back pain I’ve been dealing with was actually this tumor pressing on my brain. For one thing it would help explain why I have not had a doctor point at an MRI and say ‘this is why it hurts’.
Now this is FOH so I don’t expect anything less than who cares/gay/harrow and ball busting , that’s why I’ve been coming here since the early days of EQ.
For the record here gang if you take nothing else from this please take this: I had not prepared my wife for what to do if this all went to shit. I had to walk her through how to get to all our savings & my retirement account laying in a CT machine. If you have a SO, make sure they know what to do if shit hits the fan. That sucked more than any of the rest of this BS.
On 6/22 I was playing FF16 when my wife found me on the floor having a seizure. I have never had a seizure before nor had I known I was prone to have one. She immediately freaked out and called 911. That turns out to have been the 100% correct move.
I have zero memory of most of this , some of what I know is from what she told me and what I read in the hospital discharge reports.
My first memory of this is being told I was in a CT machine at our local dinky hospital and I had a mass in my right brain that wasn’t supposed to be there. Turns out I had a brain tumor for who knows how long and it was only in my head.
Flash forward to seeing my brother in Las Vegas, I’ve been trying to get him to come to the city since I moved here and there he was! I said why the fuck are you here, then why am I here?! I was in a hospital bed in the ICU ward and apparently had been there for a week. I remember none of it.
You come to Vegas for fun, gaming , for concerts , you do not come here for health care! I live in a town where brothels are 100% legal, you can buy a case of vodka at CVS with 9 cartons of cigarettes and then go across the street and get some legal weed, it’s right beside the gun store.
Need a good doctor? Hahah fuck you. I checked out of the hospital on the 30th of June, I found out on 7/24 that I was supposed to follow up with a neurologist ... .Seriously wtf? I didn’t know why I had a seizure, so I promised my wife I would not play any games until I was told differently by a doctor. I see her point (I was playing FF16 when she found me) but fuuuuuckkkk it sucks not being able to play a game.
It’s a really good thing I never cared about my hair. I’m now sporting the zipper-head 2023 cut (scar temple to temple). Depending next week on what the radiation oncologist says , I may get the chance to experience baldness. Still don’t know if this is something I can laugh about in a few years or if I need to start getting yeet money together to Lamar Odom it up (that brothel is only a 15 minute drive from my front door).
The tumor is gone, but the long road of follow up begins. Weirdly this is semi-exciting as I do not know how much of the crippling back pain I’ve been dealing with was actually this tumor pressing on my brain. For one thing it would help explain why I have not had a doctor point at an MRI and say ‘this is why it hurts’.
Now this is FOH so I don’t expect anything less than who cares/gay/harrow and ball busting , that’s why I’ve been coming here since the early days of EQ.
For the record here gang if you take nothing else from this please take this: I had not prepared my wife for what to do if this all went to shit. I had to walk her through how to get to all our savings & my retirement account laying in a CT machine. If you have a SO, make sure they know what to do if shit hits the fan. That sucked more than any of the rest of this BS.
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