Got a CT scan of my head this afternoon \/ evening. I’ll omit the long-ish story leading up to it. Suffice it to say that I was concerned enough about still having a headache to go to a doctor and press the issue, and committed enough to sit through a four hour stint at the Friday evening emergency room. <\/p>\n
The verdict:<\/p>\n
1) CT scan is “negative” and “completely normal.” No slowly swelling brain, no slowly leaking blood vessels. In an amusing and totally unrelated story, I got another message from the world yesterday. I was stone-cold out of gas when I drove into Providence to meet redmed<\/a>. We had our meeting, then went for dinner. I got back to my car, and noted that it was already on “0 miles to empty.” This is not an analog gauge, this is a digital readout.<\/p>\n I made my way to the gas station, and put 18.2 gallons in my notionally 17.5 gallon tank. <\/p>\n I wandered into the food-mart to pick up a vanilla milk for the ride home. While I was paying, a man pushed through the door and asked if he could “borrow” a gas can. The woman said he would have to buy it, which he promptly did.<\/p>\n I interpret this as the world saying: “Look, we just want you to know that you were out<\/b> of gas. You ran out of gas. We didn’t call you on it this time, but let’s not forget – somebody ran out of gas tonight. That somebody who was at the gas station at the same time as you. So, you get away with a warning tonight, but next time we’re calling you on it.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Got a CT scan of my head this afternoon \/ evening. I’ll omit the long-ish story leading up to it. Suffice it to say that I was concerned enough about still having a headache to go to a doctor and press the issue, and committed enough to sit through a four hour stint at the . . . → Read More: CT Scan<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2) My blood pressure runs around 115 \/ 60, with a resting pulse around 60.
\n3) My eyes don’t, on a cursory examination, appear to have detached or swollen retinas.
\n4) I am not to do Judo, at all, until I have been free of symptoms for a week. The doc looked at redmed<\/a> and asked “is that going to do anything? Can you control him? This is important.”<\/p>\n