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Well, I was wrong in my last entry. They made an appointment for me to see a neurosurgeon. I got a bad vibe about the place as soon as I walked in the door. I pretty much figured the guy was a quack and left without scheduling the test he wanted to perform - after telling me that contrast dye x-rays were pretty much useless, he wanted to run a catheter up my groin and inject dye directly into arteries feeding my brain so he could take more x-rays. He said it had about a 1 in 1000 chance of causing a stroke and he wanted to do it four times, one in each major artery. Now, I'm not the greatest at math, but my calculations brought that to about 1 in 250 for a stroke. Fuck him and fuck that...

I called my PCP and got another referral to a different neurosurgeon. That guy seemed pretty cool and he confirmed my belief that the other one was fucking nuts for wanting to do that proceedure. This one thinks it's just a cluster of blood vessels that never spread out like they're supposed to so he just wants me to have another MRI in a year or so to make sure that nothing changes.

Now I've got to go see a neurologist to do something about my migraines. A coworker of mine gave me an Imitrex when I got one a while back and it worked great. All I want is for somebody to give me some of them so I can keep functioning at work. It seems like everyone in the medical field just wants to send people all over town seeing everybody and their mother so their colleagues can all make tons of money. Fuckers...