The leak is gone !!!! Now what?

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Hi everyone:Wednesday I had the appointment that I had told you about, a meeting with a new NS , Dr. Ian Pollack, I will not recommend him to you. He seemed nice enough. He explained that the leak I had from surgery 1-13-98 was gone. Good news yes, but I asked why am I continuing to get worse. No explaination just threw it back to Dr. Furman. He left the room to call him and see where he wanted to go from here.His PA read the journal I keep because I no longer can keep track of everything. She asked many questions and listened very intently, I thought the Dr. to follow would be wonderful. After expalining that the leak was gone he got on the track of possible MS. I told him we suspected that last spring but MRI's evoked potentials all were negative. He mentioned a spinal tap and left to call Dr. Furman. He never came back. He just left !! The secretary came back and told us he could not contact Dr. Furman and someone would be in touch.So, there is where it stands. Symptoms increasing, I thought for sure the leak was causing this. Now I am so depressed. I even find myself feeling guilty for being sick and causing everyone so much trouble. I know its weird. but , I thought if it was the leak they would fix it and everything would be fine. Oh, well I'm sorry, I'll get over all this. Just more to deal with, you all know. That is why I wrote just to vent a little. Maybe it's not the Dr's fault but I at least thought he would come back in the room and tell what to expect next.God Bless,Donna C.