Emulating 'Arnie'

  

In  'Kindergarten Cop,' Arnold Schwarzenegger goes undercover as a school teacher.  In one scene, he has the following interaction with one of his students:  

Kindergartener: "What's the matter?"

Arnold: "Oh, I have a headache."

Kindergartener: "It might be a tumor."

Arnold: "It's not a toomah. It's not a toomah at all!"

This sounds a lot like me.  I've inserted a few excerpts of an email exchange to a friend that occurred just days before I went to the emergency room back in August.  We were trying to schedule having dinner together.

Email from 8/1/11

any other of the next few Fridays should be fine

unless I get some bad news this week regarding my head - which honestly is not what I expect

had blood pressure checked to insure there was no risk of imminent stroke (all clear)

more concerned they will continue to say they have no idea of the cause of the headache

therefore no suggestion to get rid of it

(tried everything known to man: advil, tylenol, excedrin for headaches, etc)

nothing works (not even drinking lots of wine)

it's getting old & making me slightly crabby after all these weeks

Email from 8/2/11

"honestly not the end of the world re: headache - mind over matter - nothing I can't handle - just too long a time frame to continue to conquer with a 'positive outlook' at this point. OH WELL, AT LEAST IT'S NOT SOMETHING SCARY LIKE BRAIN CANCER OR A TUMOR or an aneurysm - I think anyway ......"


We all know how wrong I was in this regard.

In Terminator 1, Arnold Schwarzenegger promises "I'll be back."  On my last day at work before my second craniotomy, I assured my co-workers in Commercial Loan Operations of the same thing.  The good news is that this time I was not mistaken. 

I am happy to report that despite experiencing a few delays back in December, I returned to work last Friday.

The next big event occurs on Tuesday the 24th when I receive the results of my latest body scans and MRI which I am having done tomorrow.