As promised, an important piece of personal news.
It turns out Arnold was wrong: it is a tumor.
The other day, Kathe sent a small group of friends a link to a study that said sex is actually good for a headache. I hit "reply all", as I usually do, and said that while that had generally been my experience also, the other day I'd had an orgasm* and i had caused the whole left side of my face to light up with pain, a spasm that had faded to leave behind a headache that lasted more than 30 hours.
I didn't think much of it myself, just an anomaly, but one of the other recipients urged me to go get a brain scan. They didn't find anything that would explain that sudden pain, but quite by chance they did find something growing in my brain's right ventricle.
It's most likely (touch wood) a subependymoma, a growth of the membrane cells lining the ventricle. It might be various other things, but all of them are benign things(touch wood). Apaprently it's not displaying any of the marks of one of those nasty malignant brain tumors you hear about (go buy a carved wooden finger ring).
Right now, we're looking for a neurosurgeon who does this kind of operation, preferably endoscopically. When my doctor first told me what i had and where it was, I pictured bloody gloved hands prying my brain hemispheres apart like buttcheeks. I knew it wasn't really done that way, but after seeing some of the actual surgical options, I'd have been willing to settle for that. But really, I want the endoscopic job if I can get it.
That's about all I know right now. I'll let you know more when I know more myself. In the meantime, please hold me in the Light.
* I didn't think such a reference was indecent, so long as I didn't go into details.
//The Magic Eight-Ball says, "Even in here, there is a light, and I will hold you in it, John."\\
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