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Deri James <[log in to unmask]>
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St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List
Date:
Mon, 9 Apr 2001 09:44:57 +0100
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On Sunday 08 April 2001  4:38 pm, ISM wrote:
> 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.
>

BANG!!!???!!!

..........you could have warnec me earlier, now where's my other
leg!! ;-)

> I regard the condition as the CP Stealth Disease.
>
> Steve.
>

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