This may sound whiny, since I’m just going to dump the list and not comment, but it’s bedtime and I want to get it out there while I contemplate.
I think I may have mentioned my twenty-three medical conditions. That was the number of conditions listed in one report from one of my neurologists. I claimed there were some duplicates and some missing. I decided to make a list, and I am a big user of AI, so I had Anthropic’s Claude read through my saved medical records and report the list. Once we remove the duplicates and resolved conditions, I only have twenty. To be really fair, eighteen, since the TGA and schwannoma probably should count as resolved.
| Condition | Description |
| Fungal meningitis | Curvularia infection of the brain’s lining and ventricles; on voriconazole, likely lifelong |
| Post-infectious vasculitis | Inflamed brain arteries from the infection; severe basilar and vertebral narrowing |
| Ischemic strokes | Multiple strokes in brainstem, cerebellum, frontal lobe and basal ganglia; later labeled cryptogenic; Eliquis started 08/24/2026 |
| Left hemiparesis | Severe left-sided weakness, spastic, with general weakness and speech and swallowing involvement (per 2024 and 2025 notes) |
| Spasticity and pain | Back, left shoulder and left knee pain; muscle spasms (2024 notes) |
| Headache | Chronic, linked to the meningitis |
| Transient global amnesia | September 2023 episode; amnesia still listed as active |
| Eye misalignment | Congenital strabismus with diplopia; dysconjugate gaze and nystagmus |
| Hearing loss | Total loss of hearing in right ear |
| Tinittus | |
| Vestibular schwannoma | Acoustic neuroma resected December 2023; right-ear hearing loss since |
| Meningioma | Small right frontal; listed as active |
| Pial AVF | Incidental left frontal arteriovenous fistula |
| Hypertension | Fundamental hypertension |
| Hypertension | Labile blood pressure, with hypotensive episodes (suspected dysautonomia in 2025) |
| Hyperlipidemia | High cholesterol |
| PFO | Patent foramen ovale |
| Loop recorder | Implantable monitor in place since October 2025 |
| Elevated liver enzymes | Linked to voriconazole; normalized in 2025, elevated again February 2026 |
| Urinary problems | Blood in urine (2024 referral), bladder-control issues, urology follow-up February 2026; no diagnosis named |
There are some we view as resolved, though I keep feeling the syncope just “hasn’t happened recently.”
| Right leg DVT | February to March 2024; IVC filter placed March 2024, removed December 2024 |
| Encephalopathy | Resolved |
| Hydrocephalus | Mild, communicating; never needed treatment |
| Aspiration pneumonia | Treated in 2024; a separate pneumonia in December 2024 |
| Syncope with new strokes | December 2024, from low blood pressure |
| Gallbladder surgery | Surgery in 2005 |
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