Stupid Hurts

I have been putting off this blog update for some time, but honestly everyone who knows me has heard this story already.

Last week I rode the train back home from Atlanta to Birmingham and spent a week in the hospital tethered to the wall by sensors.
I basically had 20 or so sensors glued to my scalp for the past five days.
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There was also constant video surveillance while they waited for me to have a seizure.

I was taken off my meds, and I had to wait. I had several massive seizures the worse one I woke up with a mouth full of blood and on oxygen with no memory of what happened. Unfortunately with all that testing, everything was inconclusive, no new information was really uncovered this time. The Doctors were throwing around the idea of either brain surgery or a Vargus implant, but due to the lack of information from the monitoring session. It means I would have to spend another week in the hospital hooked up to the sensor array again before they could proceed. So in the grand scheme of things I am finding it hard to justify that week I spent on my back.

Originally I was going to stay in Birmingham and rest for a few days after I got out of the hospital, but unfortunately I felt like I had spent too much time cooling my heels already. So I returned back to Atlanta right away and swung by my job to speak with my boss. Unfortunately, he felt like I was too much of a risk medically to put me back on the schedule without clearance from my doctor. After playing phone tag with my primary Dr. for half a day, he told me that he felt it un-wise to give me medical clearance until my check-up in two weeks due to the break-through seizures I have been having lately.

Luckily I kept my day job

I have been putting off adding an entry to my [tag]website[/tag] lately because aside from recovering from my recent trip, life has been blissfully dull lately. I have been spending my idle time trying to plan my next adventure, but I am really starting to wonder if there is a point to a life where all I do is roam from one thrill to the next. I have had a few pleasant offers to settle down, but I don’t realistically see myself taking any of them. I think I thrive on the excitement.

Someone did manage to trick me into speaking to my [tag]mom[/tag] for the third time since she kicked me out last [tag]New Year’s[/tag]. That was interesting but I don’t feel like any real good came from it. I also managed to get tapped to help host a [tag]New[/tag] Year’s party for the first time ever in my life. I originally planned on spending the night with the same guys I spent it with last year, just because I have never managed to spend New Year’s in the same place twice in a row. Plus this is the first year in a very long time without some sort of personal disaster happening during the holidays. I guess this is to make up for the chaos of last year. Of course it is a little early to be certain, but it does seem like this year will end on a uncommonly high note.

I recently came into a [tag]Ipod[/tag] even though I said I never ever would own one. But someone gave me their old 20 gig unit since they replaced it with a newer model. Now I just need a firewire cable, then that will mean no more low capacity cell phone [tag]mp3[/tag] player.

I also added a few of my older pics to the Stupid Hurts Gallery

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