Been saying a few thoughts and prayers for ya too buddy... and your whole family.  I'm really glad to see that you all are pulling through this rather well.

Hey--It's officilly been two months since the last update on Stetto's Brain. Mostly 'cause there was not much to report...Not, at least, that wouldn't make me sound like an incessant whiner...

I go in for an EEG on Monday. I get to stay up for 24 hours prior, no coffee, no chocolate, no stumulants. I haven't pulled an all-nighter since I can remember, that alone should be interesting.

The EEG will determine if Stetto's brain is showing signs of "bad behavior"; Seizures. Apparently I can have them without me or anyone else knowing I had them. I can also have them in my sleep. Apparently the brain keeps logs...

The result of the EEG is what I'm more interested in. It will show if they can take me off the meds and let me get behind the wheel again. You guys (well maybe Honcho) have no idea the nightmare it is being dependant on others to Get You There. We live 12 miles out of town (north). My jobs are about that far out of town (south).

So I'm all a 'twitter. The dope they have me on is not my friend. It may keep me perpendicular to the ground but the trade off is a bee-atch. Lots of fatigue, twitchy eyeballs, memory stuff...I hate when I can't find my keys...Oh--Right, nevermind...


So I'm all a 'twitter. The dope they have me on is not my friend. It may keep me perpendicular to the ground but the trade off is a bee-atch. Lots of fatigue, twitchy eyeballs, memory stuff...I hate when I...uh...Oh, been there, nevermind...

So this EEG is a big deal.

More as I remember...

I had to re read it twice to see what was wrong with that last part.  Your in good company.

An allnighter with nothing? What do they think you are, a teenager?   Well lets hope they say the transplant was successful and they can yell "its alive!".

Hey Eric (stetto), hoping that things go good for ya, and with the hope a few words with the almighty will be said. 

Well, if you gotta do an all nighter, might as well get a guitar in your hands and make it a productive day/night......    You remember that Kiss song "Beth" ? - Destroyer album back in late 70's...?

On the down side...does this mean you will lose all your tramsmorgification powers?

I dunnut wanna ever do that again.

I haven't pulled an all nighter since the night PuddinFace was born 9 & a half years ago. SHE was worth it.

I wound up doing a bunch of different things, including a Band of Brothers marathon (no, didn't get through them all), some tuck-point in the cellar (no, not needlepoint), and a bit of songwriting. I no longer consist of the quality components that make staying up all night any fun at all...

We got to the clinic a few minutes late and I was rewarded by being ushered immediately into "the Cell". I was told that the proceedure would take around an hour and a half, but the EEG would only be a half hour of that...Guess what that means...

I'd guess that around 32 electrodes were glued to my head, face and neck. I'm a painter, thought I'd dealt with every nasty solvent and adhesive known to man, but this stuff was BAD. Besides, the probe he used to check for "contact" felt like a dentist's drill bit.

At least I got to lie down...

So he asks me to open my eyes, close my eyes, open my eyes, close my eyes, again and again, then turned on the flashylightthingy, trying to get me to have a seizure--Didn't happen--Apparently he wasn't told of my condition, NOT epilepsy, but the test is the same for everyone I guess. Then he told me to take a nap. Yeah right. That also didn't happen, though he told me I got close a couple times...

Then the real fun began as he started to remove the electrodes and SUPERGLUE from my poor widdle head. Not gently, and not without more caustic, banned-in-California chemicals. Anyone wanna guess what color my hair is now?

Then I was done. Came home, slept for 13 hours. I get the results tomorrow. Stay tuned................

Ohhhhhhh  that doesnt sound like fun at all.  Good news is no seizures tho, right?  Looks like things lookin up a bit.

I do not envy you.  I have never liked staying up all night, even when young, because I can't fuinction well without at least some sleep, makes me very ogreish.

Hope the results are good.  Spent 36 hours back in '94 upgrading and then fixing a file server.  The only consolation was that Murphy had to stay up too.

There's still superglue in my hair...Or what passes for hair after 50...

Went in for the Come-ta-Jesus-Meetin' today. Appointment was at 10:30 am, wanted me there 15 minutes early so they could harrass me for my undisciplined youth and give me a number...Got there at 10, didn't want to upset the delicate balance of the suprior medical environment.

...Commenced to waiting...

...and waiting...

...and waiting...

At noon I told Terrin to put her coat on, we were going to lunch. Just as she realized that I was dead serious the doc walked in. I wasn't the most pleasant patient, and she must have sensed it   because after only a couple of curt comments from me she started in with the apologies and the excuses. I told her that I wasn't aware that the universal healthcare system has kicked in yet...

OK, OK, I'll get to the point;



STETTO STARTS TO WEAN HIMSELF OF THE DOPE TOMORROW!!!!!

The doc says "Your EEG results are perfectly normal...They usually aren't after a major brain proceedure."

It took me 20 minutes to get her to say the words YOU. CAN. GET. OFF. THE. MEDS. NOW.

It'll take 5 weeks total, then the state has to send me a letter acknowledging my extraordinary recuperative abilities and that my driving priviledges are restored.

I'm pumped.

Thanks again for the good thoughts guys!

 

That is great to hear. The best Christmas present you could get.

Quote from: Buzzardbeak on December 09, 2009, 06:24:40 PM


That is great to hear. The best Christmas present you could get.

Ditto that one. 

Outstanding! I bet you wish it was already over, but that was pretty quick considering the whole transplant and all. 

Quote from: Onepoint on December 09, 2009, 08:43:42 PM
...that was pretty quick considering the whole transplant and all. 

Yeah, the doc tells me that as far as she was concerned I could drive home from her office...So I says back to her, I says; "Have you tried this sh!t?" Gotta love a doc that has no clue how their own snake oil works...

I made the mistake of asking about concussions. This woman is the Cindy Sheehan of professional sports. She wants football banned, she wants baseball banned, she wants rodeo banned--But get this--HOCKEY is OK...Yep, she kept us there that long...

I kept a copy of my last CT scan, so I got proof it's gone...'Course I gotta get another one every year like a pap smear until they get bored with me or five years, whichever comes first...

I'm trying, through the Freedom of Information Act, to get a copy of my first scan, so's I can show to folks when I'm homeless on a streetcorner with a sign that says "Will Jitter & Jiggle For Food".

That is awesome Stetto  , just one more example that prayer does indeed work 

Carl