It was back to the hospital yesterday with Ava and her medical friend Rose to pick up the MRI scan results and get them analysed by Dr Mang, the neurologist [see photo]. He said my blood vessels were fine and my brain was very healthy (so to those who always thought I was crazy - just check out that MRI). He did point out a cyst growing in my brain(!) but insisted (in-cyst-ed?) it was benign and not that uncommon. However, he showed me clearly where two of the neck vertebrae were pinching a nerve, a condition called Spondylosis, fairly common in old people(?). The cure? There isn't really one - take vitamin B12, massage your neck when it hurts, wear a neck brace for 2 hours a day for two weeks, take a pill if you get very dizzy, keep your blood pressure down, rub in deep heat, try to work and play with your head raised at 15° from horizontal - easier said than done, and live with it! But at least I had a name for my problems.... or so I thought.
We left Mr Mang and popped into a top bone specialist friend of Rose's. He took one look at the X-ray and MRI scan and immediately dismissed it as a pinched nerve. It must be an ear problem, he decided. We showed him the results of the recent ear test (negative) and he said it must be a pinched blood vessel. We showed him a negative test results for that too, and he said he only knew that from the MRI it couldn't be Spondylosis.