Lmao! That’s a good one!! At our Mothers Day picnic a young lady and her family walked up, I introduced myself, she said, “Oh, we’ve met a few times.” Without thinking these goofy words spewed out of my mouth, “Sorry, I have damage brain…” . As soon as the words left my lips I knew what I was gonna say wasn’t even close to proper grammar so I cracked up and everyone else joined in 
. I’m always happy to give folks a good laugh!
Hope everyone is having a good weekend 
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I would strongly recommend recording every doctor visit so if there is a complex explanation you can replay it and look up the words. Also google scholar searches turn up real medical articles
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It takes a LOT for me to go to the doc these days! I had a terrible case of the flu last winter but refused to go to the doctor. When I do have to go it’s very anxiety producing.
Ditto here! The neuro that diagnosed was actually the best I’ve ever had but he was still a dick! He tells me I have aquired CA…that’s it! The only suggestion he had was PT and that unless something drastic happened he didn’t ever need to see me again. And he’s the only doc who didn’t tell me to quit smoking 
…that was shocking!!
I went to the same neurologist that diagnosed my mom with Alzheimer’s…she also passed 2 years ago. I’m sorry you lost your mom to that horrible disease 
. It was so hard on our family, especially my dad. He cared for her by himself at home until the day she died in her own bedroom surrounded by loved ones…I still miss her so much!
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…needed a laugh!
entered on wrong post sorry!
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Unbelievable!
OMG!
I was evaluated by numerous neurologists in the Orlando area including many referrals to “specialists”. No success and much waisted time and money. Went to the Mayo Clininic in JAX and was diagnosed with two days of testing! My joke now: BETTER TO BE SEEN THAN VIEWED!
I went to 3 neurologists, an ENT, and a balance specialist. Two of the neurologists told me that I was going to die! I thought they would know what was wrong with me. How naive am I? The balance specialist and one of the neurologists said no way. The balance specialist wanted me to come back. What’s the point? Like the commercial says, “Why monitor a problem if you can’t fix it?”.
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My neurologist before my current one had done a doctoral dissertation on ataxia. He was a five minute drive from my house as well, so I thought I hit the jackpot.
After a few visits he informed me that he didn’t think I have an inherited ataxia. Despite the fact that half of my dad’s family have lived and died with this for hundreds of years. We have the symptoms in our family history book. I told him off and changed to a guy an hour away who once saw someone else with ataxia. 
I was recently blown away when I switched to my husband’s PCP. The guy walked in the room and said, “I see you have spinocerebellar ataxia. I don’t know much about that. Tell me how it works.”
I stopped him there and thanked him for his honesty and openness. This was the first time I’d found that in a doctor.
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