It was, he told Smith, the latest chapter in his seven-year quest to diagnose the illness that had made his life a misery. A neurologist told Lopez he had an acoustic neuroma, a benign brain tumor, then abruptly changed her mind and said the scan showed nothing. Experts told Lopez they believed the leaks were the result of his 2010 collision with the Cessna, but couldn’t pinpoint their location. ADADLopez told Smith, as he had the doctors he had seen, that his symptoms started after he hit his head. Reviewing his lab tests, Smith spotted a slightly but persistently elevated sodium count in the years after the accident — but not before.

Source: Washington Post January 25, 2020 15:56 UTC