Back where we started?

I slept through the night last night! It was the first time in over 14 nights. I woke up this morning with a headache, but not the severe migraine that I've had for the past couple of weeks. My neck and left shoulder were stiff and sore, but not pounding like usual. This was quite a blessing! So I skipped my meds this morning! (I know, I'm a glutten for punishment!)

My mother insisted on going to this appointment with me. She said she was sure everything would be ok because she had been praying all weekend. She said she needed to go with me; she felt sure of it. She said "Honey, I'm feeling good about this because it's not your time yet. God isn't finished with you yet. I feel like He needed to use you for something and needed your full attention; but He doesn't have time for you to really be down right now. So your doctors need to hurry this along."

Me: Ok Mom, you can go with me. But PLEASE just sit there and listen; and don't start rushing the docs, ok?

So we went for more tests together this morning. Then we went to see the orthopod in the afternoon together; he did more xrays. He said he couldn't find any fractures on his xrays today. Mom jumped up out of her chair and sighed "Praise the Lord!"
So I got up and looked myself. That danged atlas looked like it was back in place, right where it belonged. The ortho commented, "I'm not really sure what the other doctor thought he saw on his xrays, but these look ok....see the atlas is this top bone right here..." as he pointed at the C1 vertebra.

I stopped him mid-sentence and pointed myself:
Me: I KNOW which vertebra is the atlas! That one right there (pointing to C1) that was NOT there Friday and Saturday. I saw it with my own eyes on 4 different films and angles! He redid the xrays twice. My husband went back in with me again Saturday to see for himself. That bone was over THERE (pointing again) over the weekend; it was NOT HERE. (pointing back at my now normal looking atlas)

Orthopod: Well, it looks fine now. You may have a migraine? I'll send these xrays off to a radiologist in Atlanta to see what he thinks.

Me: That's what the other doc was doing. That's what landed me here. So now what?

He ordered an MRI for next week, just to be safe. If that, along with the radiology report, comes back ok, then I'll be released from all these specialists; and they'll go back to treating me for a migraine.

I didn't take my medicine this morning. I figured if the headache was tolerable, I'd just wait it out to see if I could get further than 3 hours out between doses today.
(Have I ever told you that I HATE taking meds and am the world's worst patient when it comes to meds?) For the past 14 days, it's been a struggle to hold off much past 2 hours. It's now bedtime; and I haven't taken any meds all day. I can still feel it, but it's bearable for the first time in two weeks. So I'm going to try sleeping without meds tonight and see if I can sleep through the night without them. If so, I think the worst is over; and Mom was right...there's just no other explanation for the past few days.