So here's the story:
After about a couple of months of increasing stabbing pains around and behind my left eye I finally admitted defeat and went to my GP. This had got to the point where I had not had a full nights sleep for a month. I would wake up without fail after a couple of hours once the over the counter meds had worn off.
Initially the GP thought, not unreasonably, sinus issues. Never had that before but given the symptoms it seemed a fair first shot. Two courses of antibiotics had no effect. By this time I was becoming pretty desperate, probably from sheer exhaustion at not sleeping. So, GP referred me to Ear, Nose and Throat specialist at the local teaching hospital. This is no small scale setup, I live in a large city and the hospital has a national, if not international, reputation in some specialties.
Couple of weeks later got the appointment through. The specialist did the routine scope up the nose job, not pleasant, but he could see nothing. He ordered an MRI scan. Two weeks later back again to get the results.
Stunned, as I think we all would be, to be told I had a tumour on the Meninges, called a Meningioma unsurprisingly. The consultant then referred me to a specialist Neurology hospital in the same city. Two weeks later, after having spent the intervening period mugging up on gamma knife therapy and the difficulties of brain surgery behind the cavernous sinus, the day of my appointment came. I had by then got the written MRI report, a .5 by .8 cm tumour positively identified by the pathologist.
The first thing the Neurosurgeon asked me, he had got the MRI up on his screen, was, "Who told you that you had a tumour?". As far as he was concerned there was no sign of a tumour. He did say that the MRI appeared to have more of an increased contrast than he would normally see, but that could just be either an artifact of the particular MRI or my body's individual reaction to the injected contrast medium. Ordered a follow up MRI that day and everything looked fine.
Over the next month and half or so the headaches died away, they had actually begun to ease off by the time I finally saw the Neurosurgeon.
So the question. I am a pretty phlegmatic character and the only feeling I had following all this was almighty relief. It never crossed my mind, and still doesn't, to even complain. I was just happy to get my normal life back, don't often get drunk but I did that night.
Since then a number of colleagues and friends have said I should "sue", I have no intention of doing so. Other colleagues and friends, one in particular who is of an "artistic temperament", have told me I am being far too laid back about the whole thing.
Just out of interest, what would you have done?
After about a couple of months of increasing stabbing pains around and behind my left eye I finally admitted defeat and went to my GP. This had got to the point where I had not had a full nights sleep for a month. I would wake up without fail after a couple of hours once the over the counter meds had worn off.
Initially the GP thought, not unreasonably, sinus issues. Never had that before but given the symptoms it seemed a fair first shot. Two courses of antibiotics had no effect. By this time I was becoming pretty desperate, probably from sheer exhaustion at not sleeping. So, GP referred me to Ear, Nose and Throat specialist at the local teaching hospital. This is no small scale setup, I live in a large city and the hospital has a national, if not international, reputation in some specialties.
Couple of weeks later got the appointment through. The specialist did the routine scope up the nose job, not pleasant, but he could see nothing. He ordered an MRI scan. Two weeks later back again to get the results.
Stunned, as I think we all would be, to be told I had a tumour on the Meninges, called a Meningioma unsurprisingly. The consultant then referred me to a specialist Neurology hospital in the same city. Two weeks later, after having spent the intervening period mugging up on gamma knife therapy and the difficulties of brain surgery behind the cavernous sinus, the day of my appointment came. I had by then got the written MRI report, a .5 by .8 cm tumour positively identified by the pathologist.
The first thing the Neurosurgeon asked me, he had got the MRI up on his screen, was, "Who told you that you had a tumour?". As far as he was concerned there was no sign of a tumour. He did say that the MRI appeared to have more of an increased contrast than he would normally see, but that could just be either an artifact of the particular MRI or my body's individual reaction to the injected contrast medium. Ordered a follow up MRI that day and everything looked fine.
Over the next month and half or so the headaches died away, they had actually begun to ease off by the time I finally saw the Neurosurgeon.
So the question. I am a pretty phlegmatic character and the only feeling I had following all this was almighty relief. It never crossed my mind, and still doesn't, to even complain. I was just happy to get my normal life back, don't often get drunk but I did that night.
Since then a number of colleagues and friends have said I should "sue", I have no intention of doing so. Other colleagues and friends, one in particular who is of an "artistic temperament", have told me I am being far too laid back about the whole thing.
Just out of interest, what would you have done?
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