It’s good to know why some things happen

My wife and my daughter convinced me to see a doctor about my slight confusion and writing problems after I told them the problems existed, following my fall a month ago. 

I met the doctor this afternoon. The doctor listened. He asked questions. He then said I probably had a concussion, but if there was any bleeding on the brain it was small.

“If you had a large bleed, after a month you would be dead,” he said.

The doctor mentioned an MRI, but my wife quickly said, “He can’t have an MRI.” She then explained the brain aneurysm 35 years ago, and Army doctors who told me an MRI would possibly pull out the spring-loaded stainless steel clip in my brain.

The doctor said he doubted that would happen, but rather than find out with me as the lab monkey, he would check. He called a doctor friend. He called three different numbers before locating the other doctor.

Turns out magnetic attraction between an MRI procedure and a stainless steel aneurysm clip is not likely, but the possibility exists of movement of a clip inside the brain because of the way an MRI works. Movement of anything inside the brain is a thing to be avoided. 

So, there was a reason for my problems. 

I have said this before, but this time I mean it. Political writing is out. There is too much stupidity, too much … Our politicians should just meet on a big field somewhere, with baseball bats, and have at it. The country would be damaged less than by the hardships they are putting us through now.

Anyway, I have a CT scan scheduled for tomorrow.