hello

i'm back from colorado. as always, it was a joy to be with my family, and heart-wrenching to leave. it was also fucking COLD. other than that, it was a perfect visit.

this morning i had my follow-up appointment with my primary care physician. i actually never saw her; only the resident (or intern, or whoever those kids are). he performed a lot of the same coordination & strength tests that were done at my last visit and asked a lot of the same questions. the only thing i really had to report to him was that i'd had a number of significant headaches since the TIA, with only a few days of recent relief.

he left the exam room and apparently conferred with my doctor, then came back to report that she'd like to schedule an echocardiogram. so we did: i have an appointment for 10am on friday. we'll then apparently be able to see whether my heart is "throwing clots".

so that happens friday, then i have an appointment with a neurologist on the following thursday.

i have a feeling we're not going to ever find a firm cause of the TIA, but at least i'll have a lot of neat pictures of my brain and my heart.