What irritates you?

thanks folks!

thanx cm.

that's the point where they need to have the door locked behind them, kc.

thanx 3m.

well, after making numerous deals with god on one of the longest nights of our lives, here's the update on megan:

the initial mri and mra showed that she had an aneurysm in the occipital artery. upon reviewal at children's hospital (the only hospital, incidentally, to ever use for anyone under age 18 because of the physiological differences between kids and adults) by 4 neurosurgeons, one neurologic resident, 2 md's and a general med resident, and the radiologist, it was discovered (after a laborious 3 hour process to remove everything from the images that wasn't part of the vascular system: bone, muscle, brain, etc.) that megan has an artery that makes a slight jog out of a bony tunnel that on the mri looked like an aneurysm. after removal of the bone from the images, they were better able to see that it looked like a continuous jog rather than a ballooned artery. the most amazing thing about this is that without being able to strip the non vessel items out of the image, they would have had to do a cranio-angiogram, which isn't the safest procedure on a kid. they were able to do a surgical diagnosis without surgery. we never thought we'd be thanking god for migranes, but its a hell of a lot better than an aneurysm. they still don't know what the ultimate cause of the headaches that put us in this situation is, but we know that it isn't a tumor and it isn't an aneurysm.

tc will never be the same again, since she sacrificed all of her vices to god, figuring she now has to live like mother teresa. (good luck on that, honey :wink: )

this sounds like something that a paper will one day be written on for a medical conference.

thank you all so much for your prayers. one of the first things we did was get prayer chains going throuhgout the country with our families, and they were just as important as the medical knowledge. talk about an answer to prayer.