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On Tue, Jan 1, 2019 at 11:01 PM Dana Wray <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Lori, Eric,Jim, Greg, Nancy and all fellow Quad-list members, > I have suffered numerous medical situations that could’ve ended my > life. The Lord is not finished with me yet. Lori and all, I commend you > on your survival experiences. I wish I could document all my experiences > like Lori is able to do. I thank you all for sharing your life stories. > I have had some strange experiences when septic. I was in a coma twice. > Several situations were physician error. Yesterday after leaving a > appointment for blood work and Prolia shot for osteoporosis. My caregiver > hit the curb and blew out my tire and wheel on the front right tire. I was > able to get it towed by AAA but it took an hour and a half to find someone > to bring me home. A taxi service said they did not provide that kind of > transportation. Finally someone through AAA found out three places to > call. It happened around 5:30 PM and I got home around 9:30 PM. I am at > blessed that AAA waited till 10-10 large wheelchair assessable van > arrived. I thought it was going to be a desperate situation. AAA wanted > to pay for it by credit card but the taxi company would not accept. I > thought this was strange. Has anyone else ever had this experience, when > their vehicle was not drivable? > Dana C4-5 complete, 44 years post. 7/26/74, passenger in a motor vehicle > accident at 20 > On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 1:21 PM Lori Michaelson <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> My injury (car accident) happened nearly 40 years ago and I was in the >> hospital for a total of 13 months (October 1979 to the end of November >> 1980) because I was so bad. I was not even able to sit up until I got to >> rehab so I was flat on my back for at least two thirds of that time which >> included a neck fusion and having a tracheotomy at least 8 months. During >> that time alone I came close to dying so many times I can't even remember >> if and ever since. >> >> I had such a bad neck injury that I choke often but have figured out that >> it is from tight neck muscles so it is 100% easier for me to swallow laying >> down. I have choked over 1000 times or more whereby I almost died. A >> neurosurgeon nearly killed me in Brooklyn New York after I finally got the >> diagnosis of Posttraumatic Syringomyelia and would have easily died if my >> ex common-law husband of 13 years was not with me. They let cerebral spinal >> fluid leak out of the back of my head for two weeks without doing anything! >> >> That is only a small list of so many times and I almost died this year >> when my sodium level dropped so low that I did not know who I was, began >> chewing on my finger without even knowing it (and I would have broken it >> had my caregiver not noticed it was happening) so I was rushed to the >> hospital and spent two weeks in ICU, aspirated twice before and after the >> hospital requiring a chest tube and one week later for a total of three >> weeks in the hospital this year. Unbelievable. >> >> ~Lori >> >> On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 10:46 AM Eric Olson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> A couple times but try to learn something so it doesn't happen again >>> >>> >>> <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=icon> >>> Virus-free. >>> www.avast.com >>> <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=link> >>> <#m_5896484920279362603_m_-9073437861150003753_m_-1256766246196393347_m_1553701315410400077_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> >>> >>> On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 7:13 PM Greg <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Since your injury, how many times, because of your injury, have you >>>> come close to passing? >>>> >>>> Me, 3 Times... >>>> >>>> OD, medication interaction. >>>> >>>> Almost fell in Pool when no one was around, seatbelt on. (I no longer >>>> use a seatbelt, only chest strap if I go out by myself. Actually a few >>>> close calls. >>>> >>>> Choking, eating bread, it got stuck very bad. Could not breath. Semi >>>> heimlich got it out. >>>> >>>> Greg >>>> >>> >> >> -- >> "Petting, scratching and cuddling a dog could be soothing to the mind and >> heart and deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer." ~Dean >> Koontz >> >
