Routine plans today disturbed by a new numbness on my face... my lower right jaw. After some teasing moments of numbness Sunday, I woke up at 4am with an established numb lower right jaw... much like a post-Novacaine feeling just prior to getting your tooth drilled.
I checked in for platelets at 8:30 am and reported on the numbness and was promptly sent to Emergency for a CT Scan, which then resulted in a CT Scan and a MRI. It was a light day at the hospital so they fit me in quickly. I had the same doctor that I had when I went to the emergency last time. After those tests and some blood work, it was determined that both showed negative results for a new brain bleed and the original bleed area was resolving itself well. Good news but a new mystery.
Speculation is that I have a bleed near my TMJ, a hematoma and blood got on the nerve that feeds into the jaw (the exact nerve the dentist goes after). The hope is that it will self resolve now that I have new platelets and any bleeding has been shut down. In the meantime, I am slobbering more and have a hard time telling if my spoon has actually deliver the soup to my mouth.
Platelets - 3 and hemoglobin 7.7. I got two units of red cells today as well.
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