We took a 2 week vacation to New York and then to Indianapolis the end of May/early June. During this time G was out of school for the summer. Her headaches got quite a bit worse in both frequency and severity. We have begun speaking in numbers. G has a good understanding of the 0-10 pain scale and can tell me at the end of the day how many headaches and the pain scale numbers. A typical school day would be "three fours". Or, 3 headaches with a severity of 4 on the pain scale. Since school has been out and more activity has ensued, it has increased to seven-ten headaches a day with a severity of four-ten on the pain scale. It has been an obvious difference that has begun affecting daily life.
She has now begun complaining of constant tingling in both arms with no relief and a few instances of losing balance/loss of control of her eye muscles. Given these new symptoms, we made an appointment with our Cincinnati doc in mid-June. We decided then to pursue decompression surgery. He placed us on a wait list, as we would love to get in well before school, so G can begin school on the first day. We know she will be returning part time, but no one wants to miss the first day of school, right? Especially social butterflies such as G.
We received a call recently advising of an opening on July 23rd. And now, the clock and calendar pages begin flying by. Lots of stuff to do and very very little time.
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