3/24/11

OK Guido and Dr McG have gone over my MRI and here is what they have come up with.





This image shows the damaged tissue from the TIA (transient ischemic attack). Guido thinks its a rather small area and Dr McG thinks its CREEPY.



This is a labeled image, it also shows a suspected older stoke estimated that I had 2weeks ago. Guido concurs with that but Dr McG believes that's from Robyn hitting me in the head with a frying pan.



OK now we get to the exciting stuff as Guido puts it. These images are like a mirror. So the right is really the left. Now the brain is wired so that the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body. The Green arrows on the left (really the right side) show what the artery should look like. The red arrow on the left you can clearly see the obstruction. The next two images are just different views of the arteries.



Now if you go back to the first image, the damaged tissue is indicative the symptoms I had. It is in the right side of the body's motor skills and also the speech area of the brain. Shunting of the artery is not an option in this area due it being in the speech and also the understand of speech area of the brain. If something went wrong you may understand someone talking to you but not be able to speak (what happened to me) or you can speak but not understand what is being said to you. For now I am taking baby aspirin and an large dose of Zocor. Zocor is a cholesterol medicine, my cholesterol is perfect but it makes the blood (slippery). This will keep the blockage from growing. The Zocor has a side affect due to the high dose though, it makes my legs ache like when you have the flu. OK lets recap Guido thinks this is really cool stuff YAH, and Dr McG thinks its CREEPY. I will post shit as it comes down the pipe to me. I really want to thank some people who went above and beyond for me during this, Robyn (goes with out saying) Pete & Bridget, E and Brit, Dr McG and especially GUIDO.