I’m having a spinal tap this afternoon. It’s a procedure by which they stick a needle into your spine to suck out fluid and you scream as loud as you possibly can. One thing I wish people understood, everyone has a breaking point- it has nothing to do with being macho. GET the epidural, for goodness sakes. If your arm is ripped off in some freak accident, yes you will be crying/screaming/begging them to do something before you completely lose consciousness. (I’m an EMT, I know) So we’ll see how this goes, anything that they say can be a “little” painful almost certainly will be very painful. Only board certified neurologists and crazy interns in teaching hospitals(who don’t know what they’re doing, but they have to learn on somebody) can do them. Fortuantly for me, the individual performing mine is a neurologist, so I know he’s doing what he should. They are checking, for oligoclonal bands
(which means, Multiple Sclerosis)
or evidence of Lyme Disease, which lucky me had something that my primary care doc diagnosed as that 4 years ago(I took antibiotics, it cleared up, but it never was really confirmed as that)
I believe I want to scream already, but I need answers to my health problems.
