Did you get my pun....since those are my favorite kind of jokes??
Zak has a very uncommon disorder:
Benign Exertional Vascular Headache
The Nuerologist said he only sees 2 - 3 cases like this a year; Zak won the lottery on this.
This headache comes on quick and fierce WHENEVER he does anything physical! It just started last Monday. He was running track as usual, and at about the 400 meter mark he got a terrible headache. It was mostly gone (but still feeling some slight effects) by Tuesday, so on Tuesday night he thought he would show the younger scouts how to do pull-ups. By his fourth pull up that headache was back with a vengeance.
We went to the doctor, to the neurologist, to an MRI, it is a definite diagnosis. Thankfully, it is a condition that will go away sometime within one to six months...usually. The doctor gave Zak some medicine to take 30 minutes before he wants to do any physical activity that should stop the headache pain. The pill lasts 4-6 hours and he can only take one a day. The doctor would prefer that he only take the pill 3 days a week, but no more than 5 days a week.
The doctor did appreciate and recognize my exceptional skills at asking questions.
And don't I have children that come down with the most odd medical conditions?
1 comments:
I just get ordinary head aches and I don't expect to ever get over them till I die... then maybe they will get worse.
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