...um, about that brain thing I forgot to tell you about... (it's nothing now.)

I'm devoting this TMI Thursday to something I wrote on my blog and told the entire internet but somehow neglected to tell my mom.

I was talking to her a few days ago and was all, "haha, yeah, I felt that way too when I had that brain thing!"

She's like, "Um, what 'brain thing'?" -- all concerned and motherly-like.

I go (still not getting it), "Remember? When I was having those weird optical illusions and had to get an MRI and then it showed that weird thing? And they wanted to do more testing?"

She was silent.

"WHAT brain thing? What are you talking about? You never told me about optical illusions or a brain thing."

Me: "Really? I wrote about it on my blog. Huh. I'll send you the link." <-- (not really but you can see a cartoon developing about this, can't you?)

I didn't want to alarm her so I hadn't said anything. But about two years ago, for a small period of 3 weeks, I waited, worried and pondered about the changes a medical emergency could bring to life. Not just what it could mean for me but about how so many are already living that kind of reality.

(Here's the short blog post where I briefly mention the brain thing but didn't go into details. My blog was still new and my parents weren't reading it but I still didn't feel comfortable fully divulging my feelings.) (And apparently the folks are still not reading it!) (whew!)

It wasn't until a year later that I was able to fully talk about it. And so I wrote this last November:

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