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Thankful

dizzybee
  • By dizzybee · New reply 12:41 am
  • 2 replies
  • Just wanted to say that despite all the troubles in my life and all the ills in the world, I am still thankful. Thankful, that my husband has a job and we can pay our bills and put food on the table ...

3 yrs. and counting

rspu48
  • By rspu48 · New reply November 23, 2009
  • 9 replies
  • My name is Robin and I am a 3 yr. survivor of a stage 4 glioblastoma multiforme. My last MRI was Jan. 09 which showed no recurrence of the tumor. I have spent 3 yrs. at home recovering not only from a ...

Sleepy all the Time now!

LizardmyOli
  • By LizardmyOli · New reply November 21, 2009
  • 8 replies
  • Who knows what is up with me?? I just feel like I need to take naps all the time now, could be meds? Could be chemo? It is definitely not me feeling like this, I am usually bouncing off the walls or swinging ...

finally a small glimmer of hope!

dizzybee
  • By dizzybee · New reply November 21, 2009
  • 7 replies
  • went to new neurologist monday -- he specializes in vascular issues. after talking w/me & hubster, and doing all the neuro tests, he went out to review my pictures. he came back with a very puzzled look ...

Day to day Living

LizardmyOli
  • By LizardmyOli · New reply November 20, 2009
  • 1 reply
  • Got to roll with it I suppose? I woke up and took the kids to school, came home and sat in bed to watch the today show for a bit and make a list of "to do's" for the day, next thing I knew I woke up at ...

Ulnar nerve decompression

LizardmyOli
  • By LizardmyOli · New reply November 18, 2009
  • 8 replies
  • Had the surgery last friday, in and out kind of thing. So far all is well and I can feelmy three fingers on my left hand now!!! If all stays as planned, March should be my last surgery to put my skull ...

my NIH experience

dizzybee
  • By dizzybee · New reply November 17, 2009
  • 40 replies
  • THIS IS MY EXPERIENCE -- I HAVE TRIED TO LEAVE THE DOCTORS' INVOLVED NAMES OUT SO AS NOT TO CAUSE ISSUES -- AGAIN, THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED TO ME. Well, where to start--nurse took my vitals and some allergy ...

Woke up today!!

LizardmyOli
  • By LizardmyOli · New reply November 15, 2009
  • 5 replies
  • Felt like I was in someone elses house for a few minutes! It is crazy to wake up that way, to not know where you will wake up? Crazy siezures. I was hanging my lower body off the side of the bed, bulldog ...

Nice to know I'm missed

MMB
  • By MMB · New reply November 5, 2009
  • 21 replies
  • Saw a post from Stacy that she hadn't heard from me and wanted to make sure I was okay. Just want to say thank you for your concern, I miss all of you too!!!! I do bounce in and out to try and keep a ...

September 22nd 2009

Chuckr37
  • By Chuckr37 · New reply November 4, 2009
  • 4 replies
  • My surgery has been pushed back from 8am to 10:30am, I can handle that. I will head down and have a CAT scan on the way to surgery and before theu start hacking and cutting they will do the biopsy and ...

Out Damn Spot!

dizzybee
  • By dizzybee · New reply November 4, 2009
  • 6 replies
  • have been having trigeminal neuralgia (fancy word for pain from Hades) since around Sept. 23 -- been to ER twice one shot of dilaudel and next time a shot of morphine. Finally got an MRI -- i basically ...

New website!

LizardmyOli
  • By LizardmyOli · New reply November 4, 2009
  • 4 replies
  • I found a website called Mednotes ( I posted the link on my favorites). I was a bit impressed by a quick response they gave me overnight. It lets you enter your meds, conditions, allergies, etc...., then ...

Back to reality

LizardmyOli
  • By LizardmyOli · New reply November 1, 2009
  • 1 reply
  • It was about this time last year that my brain tumor symptoms really started hitting me full on with serious symptoms such as things that made me think I was riding the crazy train!! I was losing sleep ...

true life

theyrethere24
  • By theyrethere24 · New reply October 31, 2009
  • 1 reply
  • true life called today. i dont care if i get on it. just the facty people need to know what we go threw. good luck to anyone that got the good threw ...

Silent Screaming

LizardmyOli
  • By LizardmyOli · New reply October 31, 2009
  • 11 replies
  • I have been scheduling and getting labwork done for my upcoming Ulnar Nerve decompression surgery and have had to deal with the reality of my insurance that I thought is very good and has good coverage ...

OK, some good news then!

LizardmyOli
  • By LizardmyOli · New reply October 30, 2009
  • 5 replies
  • I saw my infectious disease doctor today and he said my counts and stuff he looks at are doing very well and he did not expect them to go up that fast! He said that i do not need to see him anymore unless ...

Confusion can lead to anger!

LizardmyOli
  • By LizardmyOli · New reply October 24, 2009
  • 7 replies
  • I went to the neurophysc yesterday and I realized how out of it my brain is!!! Now I am mad, but at who? I could not complete some simple block puzzles, and word tests and other things. I filled out a ...

Sore, tired and MAD!

LizardmyOli
  • By LizardmyOli · New reply October 24, 2009
  • 3 replies
  • Fridays are not good days to have medical problems in our town, Today I had some very strange symptoms from either an infection or the flu going around? One docs office called me back and told me to go ...

Interesting mix up!

LizardmyOli
  • By LizardmyOli · Posted October 21, 2009
  • 0 replies
  • I saw the nuerologist the other day, last thursday and he said to stop 2 meds and one of those was trazadone and switch to another med. So thursday night I did just that and wham, I had this interesting ...

MRI Today

LizardmyOli
  • By LizardmyOli · New reply October 21, 2009
  • 6 replies
  • I have my monthly MRI today at 1220! Hopefully nothing has changed for the worse, maybe better? I have to be there an hour early to take medication to make me relax or I get "twitchy" as they say ...

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