Well, we don't have to agree as long as we respectfully agree to disagree.
It's good to
hear that you are recovering from your brain surgery. My son did all the
keeping-up for
friends and family by e-mail. I was lucky or whatever. Either way, I'm still
here. My
hemorrahage wasn't the result of a blown aneurism. If it had been, I wouldn't
be writing
this. It hit without warning, and it hit at a fortuitous time: my personal
physician
just happened to be on one of his rarest of rare calls that weekend, the
neurosurgeon just
happened to be on the way to the hospital and was only two minutes out for
another patient
and was diverted to me, and a bed in the intensive neuron-ICU just happened to
open that
morning an hour earlier for them to ship me down to Shands, and the
neurosurgeon in Shands
happened to be in the hospital when I arrive. They don't know what really
happened or
why, or why with all the blood in my brain and spinal cord I am an "unscathed
5%-er"or why
it won't happen again. They just called it a "benign sub archnoid hemorrahage"
and leave
it at that. And, I didn't need surgery, although a surgical team was on
stand-by in the
OR when I arrived in Gainsville. As my doctor told me yesterday during my
annual
physical, "medical science, with all of it touting, just doesn't know it all."
But, after
being on Oxycontin and Dilatin for only six weeks, feeling the consequent
headaches and
leg pains, and feeling the additional effects as I was weaned off of them, I
understand
how easily it is to get addicted to them.
You and I, and others like us, just have to accept our kismet and karma, and
live to the
fullest and richest each day that we have--and model for others to do the same.
I know I
don't have to say this because I know you will have a merry, happy, and all
that if for no
other reason than you're still with us.
Make it a good day.
--Louis--
Louis Schmier
http://therandomthoughts.edublogs.org/
Department of History
http://www.newforums.com/Auth_L_Schmier.asp
Valdosta State University
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