This is to see if I can have an appointment with you in the next
day or two.  I went for a walk on Christmas day, and developed
muscle weakness in the right lower leg (i.e., knee, weak Achilles
tendon, which has happened before) and a sense of loss of balance
(which hasn't happened before), and we slowly finished our walk for
the next half-hour.  Since then, things have every day gotten a
little worse (lower right leg worse, weakness and some loss of
fine-grained muscle control in my lower right arm), and Saturday
(12/30) at 1:30 PM I finally called Kaiser to see if I should see
someone, because I couldn't tell if these were simply muscle/tendon
problems or symptons of a small stroke.  They gave me an appointment
for yesterday (12/31) with Dr. Lazu, and he examined me, and said that
the problem was very localized, and he thought it was muscles/tendons,
but he gave me a neurological appointment for Friday just to make
sure.

I still don't have an opinion about muscles only vs. neurological,
but I could definitely use some medical help.  I am not in pain,
but I am moving around my house very slowly, mostly holding on to
things, and my right arm is slow and not always accurate in carrying
things or in typing this into my laptop.  It seems quite possible
to me that my right Achilles tendon, right knee ligament, and right
arm muscle all have problems, but I could use some medical advice
about what to do.  I went on the web to see if I could make an
appointment to see you, and they gave me an appointment for January
25.

I am going to call the advice nurse to see if I can get an appointment
to see you before then.

Advice?

Thanks,
Sally Floyd
510-848-7930 (h), 510-333-9781 (c)
http://www.icir.org/floyd/