Brain Lesion

The Doc who carried out the screening test, called unexpectedly, well it was not entirely unexpected after the "situation" the day before in the scan room.

When I went for my medical I selected every single heart test, even the receptionist raised an eyebrow, put it this way by lunch time most of the other patients had gone home I was still there when the sun was setting. My concern was while in the pool I might get a stroke while doing some strokes and my kid would have to try and swim back to the side of the pool under her own steam which is a bit of a challenge for a blob like me let alone a two and half year old.

The Doc. said there's good news and bad news, she confirmed that I have a good heart, no cholesterol, no build up in the arteries so I managed to get one up on the burgers. The bad news, there is a lesion in my brain, looks like the burgers found a covert team to hit back while I was not looking.

What is a lesion? apparently its anything that's not normal, a mosquito bite on your arm is a lesion, the lobster jumping out or Mr. Hurts chest is a lesion, so we can safely assume it is not good.

The head has very few moving parts so when they do pack in its normally fairly obvious what it is.

I Googled -Brain tumor- result, 1 to 5 years life expectancy, it was my first real" Kum by ya" moment, well there was another a few years ago, I was rushing to cross the one-way street looking left, when a bus coming from my right just clipped my foot and spun me around, it was a two-way road. I had cold sweat all night, but that was due to my own stupidity. Now fate has dealt a lemon hand at the black jack table of life. Though some argue its the result of early mobiles phones, remember those bricks ? they pumped out enough radiation to light up a small African township. Who would have guessed ordering my pizza twenty years ago would turn my head into one.

I always had a premonition that my demised would be due to a large dark body of water, I get goose bumps around large reservoirs or waterfalls. I am a glass half full kind of guy so not matter how grim the situation there is always some poor bugger in a worse situation, and if you look hard enough there will always be a silver lining to every cloud.

When you look at those sad videos clips of people in horrific accidents and you can see them gulping their last breath, cant help wonder what frantic thoughts are going through their heads.

I have now been given this fantastic, alright maybe the word fantastic is pushing the "kid yourself" boat out a bit too much. I have been given a crystal ball that has shown me when, and how Mr. G. Reaper will be popping for tea and biscuits.

I can now get off my butt and do all the things I wanted to do, "sort out my affairs", making sure I don't leave behind a logistical nightmare, my wife does not know how to turn on the AV system, and its heart breaking knowing my 2 years old daughter wont be able to watch Higgly Town Heros. This is the sliver lining, fore sight, its something those poor souls in the crash videos did not have.

First thing is to do is find a travel agent that can sort out a trip to all the seven wonders of the world via parachute.