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My mum is 72 years old, and over the past 3 years has been very unsteady on her feet, vague, confused, and falls quiet alot because she looses her balance, has already broken her wrist through falling 12 months ago, has had several falls since then and in and out of hospitals and rehab centres. it is only now on one of her visits that the hospital has decided to give mum an MRI of the neck and thorasic, and a CT of her brain. the diagnosis has come back today and they are saying mum has water around her brain which could be causing her dizzy spells, etc, and they will send a neurologist to do further testing i.e. lumbar puncher test (not sure what that is), what else could they do….
November 2008
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