Lemon

  The Lemon [Before we start:  Mark’s mom does not know anything about this.  My family agreed this was best for her.  Besides, I’ve burdened her enough in her lifetime!] Tell the truth:  You looked at our Christmas picture and thought to yourself: “Boy, Mark’s hair is really receding!”  Well, it turns out, I got some help with that. I was having dizziness back in the Spring – went to a couple of doctors and they dismissed it … mostly because I have a pinched nerve in my neck, and my symptoms weren’t that bad.  I even had a doctor do a neck-injection to try and relieve symptoms…no luck.  (In retrospect, I’ll bet the tumor loved that extra steroid kick!) The short story is:  We go back to Florida, I see doctor #4 – a neurologist who also says I’m fine.  But as I’m walking out the door (seriously: halfway in the hallway), he offers to do a CT of my head “if it would make me feel better”.  Two days later they find a mass ...