start of the yellow brick road

My sisters and their husbands had a quick chat and suggested we go see our cousin who works at a clinic to get us into a place where we can get my head scanned. (The irony is that what I really needed was to get my head shrinked.)

Went to see the doctor ...blah blah blah.... she arranged us to see a neurologist at Kajang. OK. we go there and see Dr Soezyani, and I get a little check up. Brain tumor didn't seem the topic to appear. More like TB and others, vertigo? Time to face the CT scanner. I also get a chest x ray. The CT scan also included a contrast solution. This was done via an IV with a long needle. DAMN it burns when the needle goes in. Why not use a normal syringe damn it.


key: 3 = brain, 2 = tumor. :D

Only joking, 1 = swelling, 2 = brain, 3 = tumor

Now back at the docs. She shows us the scan and said "see that grey patch about a third of your brain?" That's my brain swelling. Dang, this clear evidence that I had something real and it was not imaginary and gonna go away. I felt relieved that there was something I can point at. Then the bad news, it was caused by a tumor. Yes that's right I had a tumor. Damn. She said she can't do anything and had to refer me to a neurosurgion. The nearest affiliated was at Ampang. So we go there. Got charged for the CT @$700. Man these private hospitals make you pay.

So the good witch suggests we see the wizard of oz.

Due to some miscomunication the neurosurgion had gone out. So we were out of luck and booked an appointment and left.