Candis asked for my story so here goes.... Around the 2nd wk. of Dec. 06 I was
walking back to bed from the restroom and collapsed in the floor. I stood up
only to find I could walk on one leg only. On Dec. 13th my husband took me to
Little Rock, Arkansas, to a hospital there where my back dr. had privileges.
He had some tests given and told me "Natalie it is not a surgery case this time
-- something else is happening". He was going on vacation the next week, so I
had to go to a rehab center - which was awful. The dr. was sooo mean and they
kept trying to make me walk and I couldn't. My doc. returned back and put me
back into the hospital. I had my spinal cord stimulator removed and that night
had an MRI. Soon, he told me I had TM. He said I will give you some steriods
and try and reverse it. He gave me some (don't know how much) and asked me the
next day do you feel any more, like below T12? Which is the area of my injury.
I said no. This was repeated the
next day. I was then asked "which rehab center did I want to go to?" . The
one I wanted to, was too full, so once again I went to a small one. Not much
better than the other one. I decided within the first week of attending there,
I wanted to get to a bigger place and be exposed to more than I was already
seeing what was around me. I told my family Baylor in Dallas. So I went there
for 6 wks. of rehab. About one mth. ago I returned home, having been gone a
total of 3 mths. since TM had hit me. I was cathing before this happened, but
standing up which I found was the easiest way to for me. I once again taught
myself to cath at Baylor while sitting in bed, but after my last hospital stay
having had a foley in me for a couple days; my bladder has gone crazy. I'm to
see my urologist in L.R. next week, but I have a malignant tumor (MRI in TX)
picked it up on my kidney and I bet he will focus on that instead. It's not a
big tumor now. I'm more upset about all this
urine everywhere after I cath!!!! Oh well....and so it goes....Natalie
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