I've got a question that if I asked 10 different people I would
probably get 10 different answers.

I had brain (shunt) surgery twice in 1985 to drain an arachnoid cyst.
I consider myself one of the lucky ones as I have had no serious
problems sibce beside a period of adjustment that lasted 18 months or
so an an omni present headache I have resigned myself to that I have
found diet helps to lessen the effcts.

My Question:

I was having CT scans every 45-60 days for the first 15 months
following my 2nd operation in Sept '85 (22 years ago!). Since 1987 I
have probably hay 5 or 6 scans (CT's at first, but now all MRI's).

About 2 years ago (I continue to see my neurologist once every 6-7
months now) my neurologist gave me ALL my old scans (negatives which
measure 18" by 24" or so) as the neurology department had started to
clean out old files.

Right now these negatives sit in a closet in my apartment.

I have read of having scans put on disc. My fear, of course, is if I
do this, a new technology will come along eventually redering such a
disc obsolete. (Not unlike an 8 track tape player!)

So my question is:

What should a patient do what he comes into possession of records
such as scans which are 15-20 years old but nonetheless, provide an
historical perspective of a patient?

Bill