Miss Wilhelmina

For the last week, I have been paying the good doctor a visit to get myself all checked out. I first had the CBC, then the CT Scan, which thankfully showed that my brain is good, then I had to go to another hospital to get my EEG done.

The deadline to have it done was on Friday. Why? Because the Medicard form (Letter Of Authorization) was only valid for three (3) days and I got the approval on Wednesday. On Wednesday afternoon, the CDUH (Cebu Doctors’ University Hospital) CardioPulmonary Department asked me to call the following morning to have the EEG appointment set up. I was asked to call at approximately 9am because they said that the machine still needs to be tested out. I was provided with a small slip of paper that has the hospital’s number and the CPD’s extension.

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I was a little fearful of what the scan might say. First of all, I didn’t know what a CT Scan was about and for. All I know if that you lay down and then you get pulled into a tube-like machine.

So I got on the Internet again and did a little research on exactly just that.

Since the scan was done on my head, here’s what I got from Wikipedia.

CT scanning of the head is typically used to detect:

1. bleeding, brain injury and skull fractures
2. bleeding due to a ruptured/leaking aneurysm in a patient with a sudden severe headache
3. a blood clot or bleeding within the brain shortly after a patient exhibits symptoms of a stroke
4. a stroke
5. brain tumors
6. enlarged brain cavities in patients with hydrocephalus
7. diseases/malformations of the skull
8. evaluate the extent of bone and soft tissue damage in patients with facial trauma, and planning surgical reconstruction
9. diagnose diseases of the temporal bone on the side of the skull, which may be causing hearing problems
10. determine whether inflammation or other changes are present in the paranasal sinuses
11. plan radiation therapy for cancer of the brain or other tissues
12. guide the passage of a needle used to obtain a tissue sample (biopsy) from the brain
13. assess aneurysms or arteriovenous malformations

Here’s a snapshot of my CT Scan, by the way. Read the rest of this entry »

Well, half a day, rather. Cebu Doctor’s Hospital is actually the busiest hospital I’ve gone to so far, even busier than Chong Hua Hospital. According to my opinion anyways. The day before yesterday, on a super sunny Monday afternoon after shift, I may have lost consciousness for the first time in my life. What happened, you may ask. I’m actually one of the millions of people who probably like to crouch and then get up suddenly and get an occasional dizzy spell. Usually, what I would do is when I’d feel dizzy, I’d just grab onto something solid, close my eyes for a few seconds until it passes, then I’m fine.

But this time it was different.

The heat may have been part of the blame, since it was just scorching that day. As soon as I got home, I petted my April, hand-fed her, since she didn’t even bother moving her dish. Sometimes she just needed a little persuasion and she’ll finish up eating. As I stood up, I began to feel the dizzy spell coming. Knowing where I was heading to, I grabbed the machine in front of me, and said. “Nalipong man ko..” (I’m dizzy..). I started to close my eyes, and..

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