Re: [TMIC] New Address...please add to your address book

2007-03-01 Thread LadyNotes
Hey Jude, So glad to see you're back on the list. You've been missed! I don't e-mail you at your e-mail address, but I was used to reading your comments and advice on the message board. Glad you're back. Naomi ** AOL now offers free email to everyone.

[TMIC] New Address...please add to your address book

2007-03-01 Thread Heyjude48458
Hi Guys, I'm Back...Oh I missed you all so much! I haven't been online in, well it seems like, forever. Now I am excited to be back on the list. What's been going on? Did I miss anything? I have good news. Saw a neurologist for the first time in five years...said there is nothin

[TMIC] World Spine Society | Spine Resources

2007-03-01 Thread Jim Lubin
http://www.worldspine.org/spineresources/wss_spineresources.cfm Jim Lubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://makoa.org/jim disAbility Resources: http://www.makoa.org

[TMIC] Zap - sudden paralysis

2007-03-01 Thread Alton Ryder
Reading Naomi's story of being paralyzed in 15 minutes and remembering my own sudden onset, http://www.myelitis.org/tmic/archive/17/0091.html "Initial symptom was a feeling of pressure in the right kidney after dinner [500 miles from home.] Ten minutes later my legs were "on fire"; another fif

Re: [TMIC] more relaxing - less meds

2007-03-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I appreciated your comments about relaxing, stretching, and accepting > limitations. I tried relaxing, stretching and accepting only to find that over the last five years I've developed the Metabolic Syndrome- Obesity (10 kg over), hypertension, lipidemia and early diabetes!! So, now I have

Re: [TMIC] Venting!

2007-03-01 Thread LadyNotes
Regina, As bad as things seem, they could be worse. Thank the good Lord that you are still alive! My TM, left me a C4 quadriplegic. I am unable to care for myself at all. I have to have someone with me 24 hours a day, seven days a week. My attack was sudden. I was totally paralyzed w

[TMIC] more relaxing - less meds

2007-03-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Larry, I appreciated your comments about relaxing, stretching, and accepting limitations. I too have found those things helpful, though I'm still working on learning to NOT push myself so much. I've been fortunate to not have to take too many meds, and credit my doing as well as I'm doing, pa

[TMIC] Re: [Transverse Myelitis Support] Cold & TM

2007-03-01 Thread LadyNotes
Kim, I am glad to hear from someone from the Detroit area. I grew up in Detroit, my entire life, but now live in Ypsilanti (Ann Arbor). I'm sorry you have to be a member of this group. I was diagnosed with Transverse Myelitis in July of 2005. You can e-mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mai

[TMIC] Fwd: NPR.org - Sudden Paralysis and The Best Seat in the House

2007-03-01 Thread Krissy Z
Leesa Luna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:31:33 -0500 From: "Leesa Luna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: NPR.org - Sudden Paralysis and The Best Seat in the House Krissy, Haven't been active at the TM site but still get postings at my old aol site. Hea

[TMIC] POSSIBLE BLOOD TEST FOR MS

2007-03-01 Thread Krissy Z
POSSIBLE BLOOD TEST FOR MS The finding of at least three biomarkers for multiple scler- osis could lead to a simple blood test to diagnose the disease, scientists say. The researchers from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center studied relapsing-remitting MS, the most com

Re: [TMIC] numb hand

2007-03-01 Thread Larry Throne
Hi Ken, I agree with you. I took a lot of different pain killers and other medications over the years and they really did nothing for me other than to get me stoned. I currently take zero narcotics or benzodiazepines and haven't for over seventeen years. And I attempt to reduce my other medicat

[TMIC] March birthdays

2007-03-01 Thread JHarper33
Happy birthday to the looking-forward-to-the-first-day-of-spring March babies. :-) (Please send any additions or corrections to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:tmic-list@eskimo.com) ) 3-3 Marsha Scholes ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) ) 03.05 Bettie Imus ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailt