I have brain cancer? :O

So I was using a social media site called reddit yesterday to ask what would be some good things to practice for my diet. For those who don't know im on the ketogenic diet. It requires one to eat mainly fats for calories, mild amount of proteins and scarce amounts of carbs. Anyway, I came back today to the post getting over 100 comments. After answering most of them, I ran across one which asked me how I knew something was up. I then proceeded to tell him a shorten version of the story. It being brought to my attention that I never posted the story, and also that I don't update as much as I should (sorry) I figured id do a post about The Day I got Diagnosed. To make it interesting for me, ill try my hand at a third person narrative.

so without further ado     

                                                 The Day I got Diagnosed

                                                   Matt Cochran

Ok lights, camera , action
Act 1
we find our character Matt, travelling to a sale induction training for his job down in Birmingham. He has two coworkers with him, as they are carpooling to save money. As he drives he notices he feels kind of loopy but thinks he is just tired.
"MATTT!!" coworker 1 screams
 " Shit, i almost hit that car" Matt says to himself.
 "okay im driving" declares coworker 1.
 So Matt's car is commandeered and he is thrown into the brig of the back seat to try and sleep it off. Matt doesn't drive again until alone.

Act 2
Matt is in class learning about selling skills ( he was taking Benadryl for the first time because he was having a hard time sleeping) .  He had a very loose mouth and would say the first thing that came to mind without filter. eventually he just had to tell himself to shut up. He felt hung over, which one beer the previous night was not known to do. He tells himself , you are just tired.
Act 3
Our hero is back home in Huntsville. He goes over to his gf's house to watch a movie. They are watching Star Wars IV : A New Hope. Suddenly there is an immense pain in the back of Matt's head. "Am I having an aneurysm?" he thinks.
 The pain doesn't subside, though it does dull a bit. Shelby decides to rush her boyfriend to the hospital. They wait in the ER for a few hours. Matt goes in for a CT scan. After another hour , the doctor comes in and announces," there is a mass in the back of your skull, we need to send you to a near by hospital for a MRI".
 Now they knew it was serious and called the parental units, the father unit was awake and answered the phone. Matt told his dad what had gone down and that he needed him here for more support.
act 4
After the ambulance ride, Matt and his dad sat in the new hospital for a few hours, though those hours felt like minutes as Matt's thoughts raced. Matt couldn't figure how severe this could possibly be and tried to downplay the possibilities. After finally getting in the MRI and laying down for a 30 minutes, he was brought back to the room. This time minutes felt like hours though it was only about 43 minutes. The doctor came in and delivered the news, " there is a mass on your brainstem".
 "Fuck, of all places, why there?" Matt thought.
 He begins to think of what was next," are they going to perform surgery? Am I going to be alive this time tomorrow?" panicked Matt.
" We will need to send you off to Vanderbilt hospital in Tennessee" , said the doc, " by helicopter."

and so our hero got to ride on his first helicopter , though about thirty minutes in he really had to pee. "only an hour to go" he thought trying to avoid random thoughts of waterfalls. It was a sunrise view and an amazing spectacular scene for what our hero thought to be his last day. He cherished it.
Upon landing Matt was given his very own room complete with tv and an abundant amount of happy medicine. Being relieved both physically and mentally, he got his first sleep in over 24 hours. When the doctor finally got to him however, there wasn't any good news. After performing some basic test ,the resident doctor told him his diagnosis. It wasn't pretty bad, " you have cancer, however this type of cancer we can't do a biopsy because it is too dangerous".
"So I'm not going to die today " he thinks, relieved.

Soon after, his family , Mom, Dad and little sister , along with his girlfriend came in. Lots of tears were shed, though Matt couldn't get any out just being in shock of the entire day. No, those wouldn't come for a few weeks.



Well that is about it, I mean I could add more details such as names and what was on tv, but that is about the gist of the story.

I've been using the blog to really just update the cancer /treatments followed by thoughts and events going on in my life. I think im going to update it more regularly by including the in and outs of my life and thoughts more regularly. Hopefully the cancer update portion can stay the same for awhile. Hawaii pics next week.