Went to the neurological specialist. He didn’t see any nerve damage (good). He ran a quick neurological exam, having me touch my nose with my eyes closed, walk in a straight line, etc. I felt like I was being examined for drunk driving. Results: I’m Fine, healthy as any overweight 30-year-old has a right to be.
But the fact that my right leg didn’t work again this morning when I woke up troubled me. I caught myself before I fell this time, and sat on the bed for a couple of minutes until I felt like it would support my weight. Very weird.
So I have a follow-up MRI scheduled to look at my spinal cord. At this point, the nice thing is that the life-threatening and terribly damaging things have been ruled out. What I’m left with is probably either some sort of residual spinal cord damage from the car accident I was in at 17, or some other non-critical weirdness that maybe we can get to the bottom of.
Maybe the fuzziness on the bus was due to a headache or something. Who knows? Human bodies are weird contraptions. Evolution didn’t work hard to make life rational, just to arrive at a scheme that promoted survival!