i was fortunate with the bowel/bladder problems. not like i dont have areas there that is not touched but it is controllable.
i have sensations that are not normal ,it could have been different in that the nerves could have really messed me up in that area. it is not unusual though when other things in the neurological arena cause the same disfunctions nerves are nerves so one could say that when things go wrong, "what we have here is a lack of communication" we have a body that is wonderfully made when it works right. --- On Sun, 1/2/11, Alton Ryder <a-ry...@comcast.net> wrote: > From: Alton Ryder <a-ry...@comcast.net> > Subject: Re: [TMIC] Age > To: "Janice Nichols" <jan...@centurytel.net> > Cc: "tmic list" <tmic-list@eskimo.com> > Date: Sunday, January 2, 2011, 11:02 AM > Initially paraplegic, then improved > to walking with fore-arm crutches. Tail not involved. > Bladder a problem; sphincter will not release, so I've had a > Foley for years, changed about every two weeks. > > 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 > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > >> > > > >
