This is from 1997:
http://www.napa.ufl.edu/oldnews/spinal.htm
Here's an article from 2006:
http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=361
Good to know it's being worked on. If we can just hang on
long enough..
Kevin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jude, it has helped me to think of it something like electrical wires.
If something happens between the source of power and the outlet I am
trying to use, there may be no power -- or, if the damage is not
complete, the power may be "dimmer" or faulty somehow. It may even
cause sparks to sputter forth. Once we had a lamp that would sometimes
go off of its own accord and we thought there was a problem with the
wiring of the lamp. But then we were testing out Christmas tree lights
on another outlet in the same room when sparks shot forth from that
outlet. My husband had to take that all apart and fix it -- and when
he did, the lamp on the other side of the room started working right.
The problem with the lamp had not been the lamp but rather something
in the wiring of the other outlet affected the rest of the wiring. To
me that was a vivid illustration of how TM can affect one area yet
have results in another.
I don't know about surgery to remove good nerves to replace bad ones
like they do with blood vessels. Nerves are a lot "fussier" than blood
vessels.
Barbara H.
http://barbarah.wordpress.com/
In a message dated 6/12/2007 3:02:12 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
*Thanks Bernie,*
**
*That really cleared things up for me. My brother lost a leg to
cancer radiation treatment and he had a terrible time treating the
"phantom" pain.*
*I wonder why there would be such pain at the site of the incision
if we cannot feel anything? We don't feel pain on the outside of
the epidermis, but inside the body is another story. It is a
seemingly unnatural thing to happen to the body. I mean, they can
poke us with needles all day and we never feel a thing, but if we
were poked hard enough to cause an injury, we would somehow
internalize the pain and have some kind of reaction, somewhere
inside our bodies.*
**
*I don't know if I am getting my point across...but the whole
thing about paralysis is pretty amazing. I believe that we have,
somewhere inside our brains and bodies, the ability to overcome
things like TM. We ought to be growing new lines of communication
between the brain and our bodies. *
**
*Day after day, I try to raise my legs or bend my knees, or turn
from side to side but to no avail. Sometimes I wonder why
surgeons cannot take viable nerves that are working and bypass the
ones that don't. They are able to do it with arteries right in
our hearts...that's pretty bold. Why not try it with the spinal
cord too...they can't hurt us any more than we are already. Well,
yes they could, but I think I would take my chances.*
**
*Does anyone know anything about the nerve damage that occurs with
TM? Are the nerves damaged only at the site on the spinal cord,
or are they damaged all the way down the area that we are paralyzed?*
**
*Hey, don't blame me...it's 3:00 in the morning here in lovely
springtime Michigan. We have so many things in bloom now that
it's just beautiful.*
**
*Love You All,*
*Jude*
"Our present troubles are quite small and won't last very long.
Yet they produce for us an immeasurably great Glory that will last
forever"
2 Corinthians 4:17
NLT
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