[at-l] Hummingbird catching up

[Bob C]

I'm not a praying person, but I may relent, if you think it might help.

Weary




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> From: Linda Benschop <athummingbird at dnet.net>
> To: "Marsha" <atrailhiker at adelphia.net>
> Cc: at-l at backcountry.net
> Date: Tue, Dec-12-2006 12:24 PM
> Subject: [at-l] Hummingbird catching up
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> I have so much to catch up on.  So many messages I have not had a 
> chance to read yet.
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> The last couple of months have been pretty tough on me.  When I was 
> having a routine, yearly MRI of my brain, they found that I had been 
> having 
> multiple TIAs (small strokes).  I had been having more headaches and 
> "word finding" problems but didn't think too much about it.  Jan said he 
> noticed that I was having "blank spells".  The Neurologist put me on 
> some heavy duty new meds.  I actually got worse so they did an EEG and 
> found that I was also having seizures again, after being seizure free 
> since 1999, two years after my brain surgery.
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> They compared my older MRIs and EEGs and found some pretty drastic 
> changes.    So I am trying to adjust to all of these new meds...blood 
> thinners, seizure meds etc.  I am so exhausted and depressed trying to get 
> used to them.  I actually felt better before the meds.  But the Neuro 
> said that, without the meds, I have a 60% chance of a full blown stroke 
> and only 40% with the meds.  
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> Jan is my rock and always here to support and cheer me up.  I don't 
> know what I would do without him.  Unfortunately, I don't have great 
> genes.  My mother died of an MI at 50, her sister at 46.  My grandmother had 
> a full blown stroke in her 30's which left her paralyzed and in a 
> wheelchair for the remainder of her life.  I am trying to do everything else 
> to be healthy, but cannot change those genes.
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> I am trying to catch up on my friends here.  Planning on being at the 
> NYE party/camp out, Florida Trail Association, in the Ocala National 
> Forest and hope to see some of you there.
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> Hummingbird
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