Fast Forward to 1/7/05. This is my normally scheduled follow up appointment with my neurologist where he was to discuss the results of my TEE I had 12/16, pat me on the head and tell me to come back to see him in a few months.

Instead I tell him and show him (the nice folks in North Carolina were kind enough to copy all the information they had produced) about TIA#2 on New Years Eve.

He agrees that bring in New Years in the Emergency Room is not a preferred activity.

He decides that I need to go on Coumadin. He starts me on a dose of 5 mg. He first wants me to check with my PCP to see if there is any bleeding at all that shouldn't be there.

I do all that and nothing was found. Horray, I was told to start the Coumadin the day after I get the OK from the PCP. That turned out to be 1/11/05 but that is another story.

Charles Ramsey