I'm a 3rd year!

After the weekend I start back at physio school-seems unreal! Today we had our prelim lecture, an intro into our papers and getting our complex 3 week turn about timetable. I reckon its going to take most of the weekend to get my head around it! Down side is we have 8am starts every day of the week but it looks like some weeks at least my lab group gets Friday afternoons off.

This year we step up with our clinical placements, with 4 three week rotations consisting of 3 half days a week as far as I can work out. I will learn more as next week progresses.

I am glad I had such a relaxing break, I needed time to let my brain rest and to de-stress completely. I also made a lot of progress that would have been difficult had I been working, but now its time to switch on the brain and get back to work-I hope my brain holds up!

My brain passed the test!

You may remember, a few months ago I had a bit of an incident at the pool after not sleeping well for a while (I wrote about it here). Well I had forgotten the ED Dr had referred me to Neurology until an appointment card arrived in the post.

I was pretty anxious about the whole deal, the ED Dr mentioned the possibility of it being a seizure and that I might have epilepsy and that was the last thing I needed, I was terrified I would lose my license or something!

Well I had a sleep deprived EEG and then yesterday I saw the Neurologist (who was actually running early would you believe!!). One of my good friends came with me which was very helpful as she had been present when I had keeled over.
He asked me questions I had trouble answering (I dont really remember that evening at all) and then did a neuro exam (which was as normal as it can be in a person with CRPS-but please would could you actually register I have PAIN and be gentle with my hurt parts?).
I am happy to say that I have a brain ;) and he said that it sounded nothing like a seizure and although my EEG basic report showed some abnormal activity he attributes that to the medication I take for the CRPS pain rather than anything else (thank goodness). The episode was most likely due to extreme fatigue and he did mention my previous head injury.

He is ordering an MRI of my brain to be on the safe side, just in case they have missed anything that could be hiding but I'm sure they haven't. He will also let me know the final results of the indepth EEG reading when it is ready. I cant say how relieved I am about the outcome of that appointment, I'm sure the MRI will be fine and then I'll be all good to go and I promise to look after myself better this year-I really want this year to be much better all round!