> I've been posting longingly and was mulling an update.

Oops!  What an interesting Freudo!  LOL  Meant: posting "ongoingly."
"Longingly" does fit though.  I've been very lonely, in a way, waiting
for my brothers and sisters on List to demonstrate any accepting sense
of what happened to me and to be open and aware of their own
comparables.

Another matter.  The manual wheelchair may or not have been a causative
factor.  My doctors refused to assess a "cause."  It could as well
result from employment or other injuries over time, not any one
particular incident.

 Hi, Sis.  Hugs.  Seems we've a lot in common.

S.


----- Original Message -----
From: "ISM" <[log in to unmask]>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.c-palsy
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 11:38 AM
Subject: Re: MRI Results


> YEEESSSSSS.
>
> Your condition is also called Cervical Myelopathy.
>
> I had the surgery.  In order to save my life as my spinal cord was so
> traumatized I'd collapsed in a quadriplegic heap.  A few days
previously
> my GP misread my advanced symptoms and sent me home to get orthopedic
> therapy.  )-:.  My surgery involved an emergency laminectomy, C-2 to
> C-5.
>
> I'm getting an MRI update exam 04/11.  The neuro-surgeon said that
with
> CP there was little to no way of telling what's going on "inside."
>
> I've been posting longingly and was mulling an update.  Thanks for
> stirring me to write.
>
> I'm not surprised by your diagnosis.  Many on this list and amongst my
> off List friends are walking time bombs.
>
> I regard the condition as the CP Stealth Disease.
>
> Steve.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "K. Salkin" <[log in to unmask]>
> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.c-palsy
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 10:40 AM
> Subject: MRI Results
>
>
> > Hello, everybody:
> >
> > If you will remember, I posted here a few weeks ago asking for
> feedback on
> > botox and baclofen treatments for spasticity.  Well, I had an MRI
last
> week,
> > and the results were surprising, to say the least.
> >
> > First, there's nothing wrong with my head (although some may beg to
> differ).
> > But the pictures of the spine shows a different story - a
compression
> of the
> > spine at C-3 through C-5, which the neuro diagnosed as cervical
> spondylosis.
> > No wonder my hands and arms are weaker and spasming, even though
they
> were
> > fine up to a few months ago.  And here I'd been thinking it was due
to
> > overuse from wheeling myself in my manual chair.  Shows not to make
> > assumptions, eh?
> >
> > So now the neuro is referring me to a neurosurgeon for spinal
> decompression
> > surgery.  Has anyone on on this list had this surgery?  Did it
improve
> > anything?  Please let me know.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >             Kathy S.