Monday, October 03, 2005

Symptoms first started

Towards the end of August, Mark had an incident where he was talking to a customer and had a weird euphoric feeling and a bit anxious and wasn't able to complete his sentences. At the time, we were relating it to a physical therapy session that he had with a chiropractic kiniseologist and didn't think much of it. But then after a weekend trip with Brock to the mountains, Mark came back on Sunday (9/18) and had decided to go to yoga. The yoga that we do is "hot" yoga, meaning it is over 100 degrees in the room when you are stretching. Mark again had that "weird" feeling, but thought it might be due to the extreme heat in the room. As he was driving home, he felt that his motor skills were a bit out of control and he tried to pull over on PCH. He felt that he was backing up traffic while this was happening. He tried to call me, but couldn't complete his sentences, so I wasn't sure what was going on. After a bit of rest, he felt better and was able to drive home. Once home, he was still unable to complete his sentences and was quite frustrated. He then just went to sleep for the night. The next day when I called, he was able to complete sentences, but had difficulty with numbers. He had trouble recalling his phone number and couldn't write or type any numbers. This alarmed us enough to make a doctor visit. He visited his GP, but was diagnosed with anxiety or depression and was given some sort of drug. I didn't really buy this diagnosis, so I convinced him to go see a neurologist. The neurologist ordered an EEG and an MRI and from there we saw that he did have what looked like a small tumor in the rear left area of his brain. He then recommended that we consult a neurosurgeon. Which we did.