Dr. Steven Vincent, Neurologist, 1st Appointment

Today is April 9th, 2009. I had my appointment with Dr. Vincent a Neurologist in Idaho Falls. Dr. Vincent has been practicing Neurology for over 20 years and was very nice to me. Kari, who came with me helped out a lot with being there and supporting me. What an angel she is. I was asked a lot of questions about many different things. Dr. Vincent looked the MRI, of the hundreds of pictures of my brain. He showed me some of the pictures that may be of concern and some of interest. He told me that I probably had a not only a stroke when I was born but, Dr. Vincent thinks that I may have had a small stroke at some point in my younger years.

After we talked for awhile, Dr. Vincent wrote up a battery of blood work that he felt needed to be done to come up with what the problem is that is causing my hearing loss.

Kari and I went over to EIRMC (Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center) to have the blood work done. I did not realize how much blood was going to be taken until I was sitting in the chair and the nurse was taking out many vile's getting them ready for the blood to be drawn. I kid you not, there must have been between 10-15 vile's that were being set up to have my blood put into them. You should have seen the list of test the nurse had in her hand of tests that needed to be done! it was a long "shopping list". The nurse said the worst past for me was to have to give up my blood and the worst part for her is that she had to write information on labels to stick to all those vile's. Before Kari and I left, the nurse was sitting at the check-in window and filling out all the labels with the vile full of blood on the counter. Kari was amazed at amount of vile's sitting on the desk.

So, again, we just will wait to see what comes of these blood tests. It may be a few days for some tests and a few weeks for other tests. Dr. Vincent will call me and set up another appointment when he has a better idea of what may be going on.

The journey continues.