I have not slept yet again.

When i was seven i started getting what the doctors called "night terrors" to add to the exitement i had severe ear infections and tinnitus. I had to be hospitalised on many occasions. i was very quite child with vivid imagination, i did all the wrong thing every step out of line i took.

I got into sales at 14 years old. i had i hightened sence of emotion i guess, i became a protegy of some sort selling over the phone. I moved out of home at 14 years old and supported myself, had my ups and downs.

I was extremely athletic, gymnastics, rollerblading, surfing, martial arts, running and so on. I decided to move to Surfers Paradise, on the east coast of australia and get a job at warner brothers doing acrobatics."stunt work" when i arrived i fell into a sales job involved with stock market software, i high profile job that i really performed well i taught myself about six computer programming languages, i was leading sales person and a programmer.

That does not happen, i felt like i had a gift................

just after the olympics in australia 2000 i cracked under stress at work.. could not concerntrate, was wearing sunglasses inside.

i realised i had a gift alright i hightened sence of awairness,emotion, that would not turn off.. my night terrors had come back.. except i was awake..

I went to doctors and some how convinced them to do CT scan and then of course mri ( you know the story) MRI revealed an arachnoid cyst 4 cm high 1 1/2 cm deep right on the Front between the left and right (more so right) lobes. I actually was told by a neurologist that if it was a cyst they would not touch it.. so when the mri came back i opened it, read it was a low dencity thin walled arachnoid cyst creating mass effect and some scalloping of inner table,..

(by the way if someone can tell me the effects of scalloping canthey email me)

I remember having to concerntrate to walk and then i get a phone call from my work, wanting me to go to london.

SO i said the famous words "f***k it" and off i went.. it only took 3 valium to get me on the plane.. so off i went living in london for a year.

the first six months i was like walking on egg shells.. then i was fine.

NOW i am back in Australia i have left my job.. when i spent the last day on the floor on my back next to my desk i realised it was time to leave i work for myself ..now creating web sites.. because if i have bad turn i dont have to answer to anyone.

My symptoms now are..
weekness sensations right face.. and right foot.....
right side takes more concerntration..
eye sight.. its like im seeing from a different point.. if that makes sence..
lack of concerntration
insomnia(obviously its 10:30am i havent slept)
depression.

I think its time for another MRI and see a neurologist.

Its amazing how everything can change in an instant... i tried putting it (at the back of my mind) and it worked for 2 years, but now i cant hide any more..

sorry about crapping on, but im not much of writer.

confused in aus,

Darren M

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