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.

Symptom 2 - Part 4: A Night at the hospital and home-coming

During the rest of that night, in common with hospital stays everywhere, I think a different person was in my room every 30 minutes to check serum levels, blood pressure, bring dinner, clear away dinner...
By the time 11pm came around, I was tired enough to be almost asleep, at which point another nurse came in, woke me up and gave me a sleeping tablet...

I suppose everyone should know by now, you don't go to hospital to rest.
I think at 5.30 I was woken again for a blood pressure test, and then at 7.30 for breakfast.

Saturday continued like this with people in and out to tidy the room, make the bed, clean the floor, take away the breakfast things.
I don't understand why one person cannot do all these tasks, and get the entire faffing about finished in one visit, allowing the patients some privacy and time to rest. Actually, maybe that's part of the plan - prevent us from becoming too comfortable so we try to check ourselves out as soon as possible!

Anyway, by around 11am, I had seen my DR who was asking if, following the first course of the corticosteroids, had there been any improvement yet in the numbness (there hadn't been), and to let me know the second course was coming soon.