Headcase Comes Alive

It's been a wild year thus far. I'm just about 37 but literally just about died this year. Toward the end of last December, I thought I was having migraines. There's almost never anything wrong with me. I can ride my bike all the way up the mountain, lift more weight than many football players, and hike for hours.

I went to the Doc in the Box (no insurance) to get some medicine for migraines. Sure enough, that's what he (a nurse practicioner) gave me, even though my one eye was blurry and the lid was partially shut. The medicine didn't do a dam thing for two weeks.

When I went back to the doctor on January 5th, I saw a different one. He was so concerned that he sent me immediately for a CAT-SCAN, then a MRI, and then a CAT-SCAN with dye. He then asked me to come to his office and explained to me that I had two tumors, both of which he thought were dermoids in my brain. One on each side of it. The one was pressing against my third cranial nerve, which was causing my eyelid to shut, the pupil to dialate, and the eyeball to actually look toward the side.

He had already set up an appointment to see a neurosurgeon the following day. I was so blown away. It felt as if I was walking around in a different body. There was a good chance that I could die.

The following day, my friend Chris went with me and we saw Dr. Little. We looked at the MRIs, and it was obvious that there were two tumors. They were big tumors, one being the size of a woman's hand, the other being about half that size. He told me that the one on the third cranial nerve had already burst inside my head so we needed to take it out the following day.

I'll eventually get around to all of the details about the operation, but I just wanted to let you know that in my blog, I'm going to cover a wide variety of subjects. I'll discuss music, traveling, sports, politics, and just about anything else interesting that happens.

I just thought that to start off, you should know what has been going on with me. It really has changed my life and makes me want to try as hard as I can to utilize my talents. Hopefully, this will be a fun experience!