Please do not send me any more e-mails. I am trying desparetely to
unscribed my TMIC thanks
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From: "Janice Nichols" <jan...@centurytel.net>
To: "Alton Ryder" <a-ry...@comcast.net>
Cc: "tmic list" <tmic-list@eskimo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 9:13 PM
Subject: Re: [TMIC] Age
Ain't life great! I have problems with my bladder. Getting stronger,
but still use in/out catheter twice a day and go on my own the rest
of the time. I predict 2010 will find all of us TM'ers doing and
feeling better.
Janice
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From: "Alton Ryder" <a-ry...@comcast.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 8:45 PM
To: "Janice Nichols" <jan...@centurytel.net>
Cc: "tmic list" <tmic-list@eskimo.com>
Subject: Re: [TMIC] Age
paralysis
Initially paralysis and a loss of sensation below a line from my left hip
joint to my right kidney. Detailed in
http://www.myelitis.org/tmic/archive/17/0091.html Several months
later I was walking with forearm crutches, then excess tone spasticity
caused another problem.
bladder & bowel
No bowel problem, thank God.
For a year the bladder problem was dribbling. It transitioned to a
different and hellish problem - the detrusor muscles squeeze
involuntarily, and the sphincter REFUSES to relax. The solution is an
indwelling catheter, a Foley.
Alton
On Dec 27, 2009, at 11:17 PM, Janice Nichols wrote:
Soooo, it sounds like no TM, but stroke that manifested itself in the
spinal cord. Do you or did you have the paralyzation problems
that we TM'ers have? Also, the bladder and bowel problems prevalent
with TM? If so, is it only because the clot was in the cord rather
than anywhere else? Sorry to be dense, but don't quite understand.
Janice
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From: "Alton Ryder" <a-ry...@comcast.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 27, 2009 5:10 PM
To: "tmic list" <tmic-list@eskimo.com>
Subject: Re: [TMIC] Age
is spinal stroke what transverse myelitis is?
a myelitis is an inflammation of a nerve bundle, in our case the spinal
cord; the infection manifests by white cells in the fluid around the
cord (I had none, so I didn't really have TM.)
transverse means across the thickness of the cord
spinal strokes are failures in blood flow in the arteries serving the
spinal cord, usually one of the two arteries that run parallel to the
cord, in my case one of the tiny arterial capillaries inside the cord
at T9-T10
my cholesterol level was very high then (1997,) and I had been riding
as a passenger all day
I was lucky; the clot could have lodged in my brain with consequences
not good.
Alton, currently 75 with very low bad cholesterol, high good stuff, and
expecting at least another decade of a good life
