This Is (My) Spinal Tap
Posted By Russ Emerson on July 29, 2007 at 6:31 pm
Starting tomorrow, I undergo a series of tests collectively known as a cisternogram.
It starts with a lumbar puncture, during which something slightly radioactive and extremely expensive will be introduced into my spinal fluid.
I’ll then be scanned for the next few days — through Wednesday — so they can track the ebb and flow of my spinal fluid and thus, we hope, find the source of the buildup of said fluid in my brain.
I’m told that a lumbar puncture can be uncomfortable. Well, I figure it can’t be any worse, in the long run, than not being able to walk… which I now can’t do without crutches.