Meg started feeling tired around Thanksgiving, while our son Nick (seen with her here) was visiting.
The following weekend she started to feel extremely tired and weak, and we both assumed she'd come down with the H1N1 flu. She stayed home from work, and I came home at lunchtimes to check on her. Sometimes she was better, sometimes worse. I stayed home on Thursday and Friday. By Saturday (12/12/09) I was worried, and took her to the Swedish Hospital, Cherry Hill, Emergency Room.
The ER doctor sent her for a CT scan of her head, just in case, and it revealed a very large mass in her brain. She was immediately admitted to the Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit, where she remained for several days.
I chose to go to the Swedish Cherry Hill ER because it was close to our home, next to our primary care doctors, and had previously treated me. It turns out that this happenstance led us immediately to precisely where we needed to be, the best neurological care in the Pacific Northwest, to where we would have been transferred, had we gone elsewhere.
Meg's surgeon is Sarah Jost, M.D.
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