Follow up to latest MRIs

Almost like the proverbial buses, you wait ages for a blog and then two come along in short order.

Now that the ringing in my ears has finally faded away after the follow-up MRIs, it's time to write about the subsequent analysis with the latest neurologist to see me, this time at the Rosario Hospital (or to give it its real name, Hospital Nuestra Señora del Rosario).

When I was booked in at the same hospital to have the MRIs done, I was also booked in for an appointment with Dra Herrera who is meant to be Sanitas' number 1 DR for MS.

The new MRIs were also to include a different type of MRI, this one was a type of scan to determine if my MS symptoms (remember that MS is ordinarily diagnosed by exclusion, various different symptoms and test results combine to give the most probable cause) were caused because of a venal blockage in the veins draining the central nervous system.

Five months later...

Wow - where did the last five months go!

Time for a progress report and a minor rant aimed at Sanitas, my private health-care provider here in Madrid .

First the good news - almost no change at all - the diet part continues to work for me, and now I'm about 7kg lighter than where I was at the start of March - the summer jeans I was wearing seem a little tight in the various curvy bits I've still got left, although I realised today that they are a 32R, meaning I have finally dropped a 2" waistband size (girly shriek of joy).

Even though I'd cut out as much saturated fats as possible and all milk-based dairy (I still eat eggs), I'm not actually feeling like I am missing out on anything - I'm eating more seafood and using soy milk/yoghurt with my breakfast and almost never experience any cravings for Chocolates, Ice-creams, Pizza's, Pasta foods with bechamel or cheese...Lemon-Meringue pie (actually, I CAN have that, as long as the base has no butter or margarine in it).

Mitra, my wife has been experimenting with baking with olive oil and we've had variations on carrot cakes and lemon sponges and so on, which have all been great too.

So, no further symptoms in 5 months, feeling great, have at least as much energy as I did years ago (handy for chasing our toddler son Kian around and will be useful for when our baby daughter Ava becomes more active too).

Is this the bit where I say I am vigorously touching wood...I mean, I know how that might sound to the immature amongst us...

Moving on then.