Jakob likes 911 and "I SWEAR OFFICER I'M NOT A BATTERED WIFE"!

***If you have not read my LAST ENTRY you should read that to understand this one completely***


The day after the accident Allen and I got new cell phones.

Blackberry Curves, LOVE THEM.

Allen took the SIM card out of my old phone and gave it to Jakob. HE LOVES a phone and so Allen thought WOW this will remedy the problem we have with him always trying to get ours.

What we didn't realize though was that EVEN THOUGH there was no SIM card in the phone....you could still dial 911.

*sigh*

Jakob was walking around the house with his phone when I could have sworn I heard someone talking. I ran to him, grabbed the phone and someone said:

"911 what is your Emergency"?

Here's how our conversation went:

ME: OMG Ma'am I'm so sorry, my son dialed 911, everything is fine.

HER: What is your address, I need to send an officer?

ME: Oh no ma'am NO NEED FOR THAT....my two year old dialed you, see we got these new phones and took the SIM card out of the old one and.......

HER: Right, he can still dial 911 with the phone though...what is your address?

ME: SIGH....Fine, my address is.............But really you don't have to send anyone, my son dialed 911.......I tried to tell...

HER: An officer will be out shortly.

GREAT

JUST

GREAT!

About fifteen minutes later there is a knock on my door. I open the blinds and sure enough...it's a cop.

SIGH.

I open the door and immediately start stuttering saying "I'm so sorry officer, my son dialed 911 and see we got these new phones and we didn't realize if you took out the SIM card in the old............"

All the while he is staring at my eye and forehead.....I guess because it looked like THIS:



Heh...heh.....yeh.

To make matters worse when I think I am in trouble the more I try to explain something away whether I am guilty or not (and you know I am never guilty;-) I MAKE MYSELF SOUND LIKE THE BIGGEST LIAR EVER.

The officer waits for me to stop stuttering and yammering and says:

"What happened to your head and your eye".

To which again I begin stuttering and stammering saying "Oh this, I was in a wreck yesterday, it's actually kind of funny that you are here and I am dealing with the police two days in a row, I swear this is from the accident, did you see the STONE HILL sign up there...well I did that....."

Then he demands the police report from the accident.

When I handed it to him, he starts to read it, his face lights up and he says:

"OMG YOU ARE THE LADY THAT GOT REAR ENDED BY FLORIDA HIGHWAY PATROL YESTERDAY"?

sigh

"Oh yes, that was me, how did you know about that"?

He then explains that they "all" knew about it and that everyone was giving the officer a hard time and that I was the "Poor Mini Van Mamma".

LOVELY.

He then asked to see Jakob and left with a big grin on his face.

A week later I was walking into the gym. That particular day I was tired of wearing my sunglasses on the treadmill so I braved it with my black eye out for all to see. I was walking to the treadmill when I noticed a man staring at me. The closer I got the more he stared, which I assumed was because I had a black eye. Then he smiled very big, jumped off of his treadmill, ran over to me and exclaimed "OMG HOW ARE YOU", THEN HE HUGGED ME! Initially I had no idea who this guy was and was about to PUNCH HIM when I realized.....THIS IS THE GUY THAT REAR ENDED ME!

He said he thought it was me when I walked in but that when he saw that black eye HE KNEW IT HAD TO BE ME. We joked around and he told me he had gotten nothing but grief from his fellow officers about the accident. The officer that had come to my door the week before called him after he left my house and ragged on him saying "Dude you should really feel bad, that poor lady looks like someone beat her up, I can't believe you hit poor Mini Van Mamma".

OY.

Ocala, it's a small town.

The Wreck.......and what's that in my brain!?

In February I was in a car accident.



I had dropped the kids off at school, gone to the gym and was coming home. I literally was turning INTO my subdivision. Mid turn I was rear ended. I lost control, and went off road straight into the neighbors yard. The drop from the road to yard was un even so the van shifted to the left and my head hit the drivers side door window.....pretty hard. I felt the impact of that but didn't have time to think because then I ran over our subdivision sign which deployed the air bags. When that happened all I could see in front of me was well...airbag of course and A HOUSE that I was going straight towards. I went to hit the brakes and in my panic and confusion (I had just hit my head AND had an airbag in front of me) hit the gas. SIGH. Luckily I got it together enough to hit the brake and my van literally came to a stop five feet from my neighbor's front door.

My Trajectory...scary I say!




When the van came to a halt, I saw smoke, panicked thinking it was on fire and got out. It was just barely raining. I sat down on the ground a few feet from the van and that's when I noticed a red SUV across the street parked.



The lady that lived in the house opened her door (in a mumu and curlers btw lol), looked shocked that there was a van in her front yard.......then she noticed me sitting on the ground and said "OMG WHAT HAPPENED!"



She ran back in and called 911.



A man got out of the red SUV ran across the street. He sat down next to me and asked if I was okay. I was shaking and hyperventilating at this point. I had been trying to catch my breath but was so shaken and confused. Between gasps I told him I think I am okay but my head really was hurting. He looked at my forehead and said "Well you do have quite a goose egg there". He told me to try to slow my breathing down. Then looked me over. He saw burns on my arms and explained they were from the air bag. I told him maybe we should move that I thought there may be a fire in the van and he said no the smoke was from the airbags too.



Then he did something that was very surprising.



He put his arm around me and said:



"You realize this is all my fault, I rear ended you I am so sorry. I am an under cover Florida Highway Patrolman and that's an unmarked car, I already called this in before I even got out".



I just started crying. I am not sure if it was out of relief that this was an honest man. He was a cop that wasn't going to try and pin the blame on me somehow.



The more he talked to me the more I started to calm down. He had his arm around me most of the time saying how sorry he was and talking me through slowing my breathing down.



The ambulance arrived. The paramedics were SO nice and they advised I go ahead and take a trip with them to the ER because of the bump on my head. I quickly told them my sister was a paramedic and to call her. By the time they had me loaded up in the ambulance I had calmed down and was actually joking with the paramedics. I apologized for how bad I must have smelled. I had just come from the gym and told them had I known they were going to pick me up I would have showered first. They told me that I didn't smell that made me happy! LOL

About an hour after the accident.


Once in the ER, the doctor and nurses were surrounding me asking questions, taking off my shirt, putting a gown on me. I was hoping they would leave at least for a second. I had worn a waist slimmer belt to work out with . It was all sweaty and nasty and I didn't want to say HEY I'M NASTY....don't mind me taking off my nasty fat girl waist slimmer belt LOL.



The doctor told the nurses to bring in the ultrasound machine so he could scan my belly. I'm thinking okay here's my chance, they will leave....NOPE. She rolled it right it and he pulled up my gown to reveal my sweaty belt.



LOL



So I say "Uhm, I'm normally a clean, fresh smelling gal, but I was coming from the gym and this belt is supposed to make you lose more weight in your tummy and so it's sweaty and gross".



*blink*



*blink*



The doctor looks at me straight faced and says...."Well can you take it off so I can scan your belly".



HAHAHAHHAHAAA



I ripped it off and was mortified to see the nasty sweat on my stomach.



SHOOOT ME.



He didn't even flinch, scanned my tummy and said all was fine.



They sent me for a CT scan a few minutes later and made me pee in a cup.

I was discharged the same day with bumps, scrapes and bruises. My knee and my head were hurt and the van was totalled but knowing it could have been much worse I was relieved.

Day three....you should see the other guy.


My thigh (omg how fat does my leg look!)


My knee



Upon discharge the doctor explained that while my CT did not find any bleeds or problems from the accident they did see an "asymmetrical enlargement of the choroid plexus". He said I should see my primary doctor and have an MRI to be on the safe side.

I didn't think too much of it, immediately chalked it up to possibly being something to do with my 11,22 balanced chromosomal translocation. A normal abnormal....no big deal.

I had the MRI two weeks ago. Really I only did it because I thought it would be interesting to see what was in my brain LOL. I wasn't concerned.

The doctor called me Thursday and says there is in fact a mass in my head. He explained he is referring me to Neurosurgery.

*blink*

*blink*

I got a copy of the report. It suggests that the mass is one of three things.

1. Choriod Plexus Papilloma

2. Hemangioma

3. Meningioma

I am pretty sure it's a Meningioma. Reason being is because under causes in the link above it states:

The most frequent genetic mutations involved in meningiomas are inactivation mutations in the neurofibromatosis 2 gene (merlin) on chromosome 22q.

If you look farther down under References number four says this:

^ Lekanne Deprez RH, Riegman PH, Groen NA, et al. (April 1995). "Cloning and characterization of MN1, a gene from chromosome 22q11, which is disrupted by a balanced translocation in a meningioma". Oncogene 10 (8): 1521–8. PMID 7731706

While I don't quite know what all of that means, it mentioned balanced translocations and chromomsomes 11 and 22. I have a balanced 11,22 translocation so........

My friend Stephanie the originator of the http://www.c22c.com/ website and support group has forwarded this information to Dr. Emanuel herself to see if they have any information about this and if she thinks the two are in fact related.

All that being said, I'm a smidge nervous. Not like one would imagine one would be when they have been told they have a mass....a gasp...TUMOR in their brain. I don't know if it's denial or ignorance on my part (I do have a brain tumor you know?) but I am not freaking out about this. I think I have a hard time believing I could possibly have brain cancer (see it was weird typing that)? I am not sure why because I mean.....I do have a little girl that only had a six percent chance of being born and she is here soo.....

My hope is that when we see the Neurosurgeon he will just suggest a PET SCAN and then just monitor it from there. I don't want anyone poking around in my brain, I mean I really don't want anyone to mess with my sparkling personality right?

We have decided to name my tumor Edna. She is old.....as the MRI states there are some calcification's which means it's been there for a while. I intend on blaming EVERY mistake I make from here on out on Edna.....

ALLEN: Trish you started the baby's bath water but you didn't pull up the stopper!

ME: Give me a break I DO HAVE A BRAIN TUMOR YOU KNOW!!!

I'll keep you posted on Edna and I.

BELOW IS THE FULL REPORT FROM MY MRI for those that like that sort of thing:

MRI OF THE BRAIN WITHOUT AND WITH CONTRAST

HISTORY: Mass in the posterior left lateral ventricle seen on a CT of the head from 2-12-10.

CREATININE LEVEL: Creatinine lab testing was performed at Medical Imaging Center of Ocala to establish the patient's estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) with the results being:
Creatinine level 0.9, eGFR 73.

FINDINGS: Multiplanar, multipsequence MRI of the brain was performed without and after intravenous administration of 18 mL of Magnevist. As noted on the CT scan, there is a rounded mass in the choroid plexus in the occipital horn of the left lateral ventricle. This mass measures 1.6 x 1.5 cm in the axial plane and 1.6 cm in the cephalocaudal dimension. It contains a small amount of calcification. It demonstrates a significant amount of enhancement and has slightly increased signal on the T2-weighted images. It also has slightly increased signal on the diffusion weighted images. It does not appear to invade the surrounding brain parenchyma. No surrounding edema. There is no hydrocephalus. No additional masses are seen. The brainstem and cerebellum appear unremarkable. Incidentally noted, there is mucosal thickening in the right maxillary and ethmoid sinuses. The findings suggest sinusitis.

IMPRESSION: Partially calcified, enhancing mass is seen in the choroid plexus in the occipital horn of the left lateral ventricle. Diagnostic considerations would include a neoplastic process such as a choroid plexus papilloma or a meningioma. A nonneopastic process such as a hemangioma could have a similar appearance. Neurosurgical consultation is recommended.

HAPPY SIXTH BIRTHDAY MY GIRL.

She is six today.

Six.

My Dearest Makily,

I am in awe of you. I think I always have been. I didn't know such strength and resilience could exist in such a small and frail little girl. Some children say how much their parents have made them who they are today. I have to say YOU have made ME who I AM today. As your mother I am supposed to teach you everything. Instead you have taught me more then I ever dreamed a child of six years and no words ever could. Watching you struggle and knowing your life is not what you deserve has been the hardest thing I have ever done. That being said YOU ARE the BEST thing that ever happened to me. I wouldn't take any of it back . I would do it all again. You are the light in a dark room, your laugh warms the coldest heart. I am so proud to be your mother. Thank you for choosing me.

I love you more then I could ever describe.

Happy Birthday my angel.

Love
Mommy

Makily's Youtube Channel:
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