..couldn't have been said better, Patti...thank you!
Jeanne -------Original Message------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 8/13/2008 1:22:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [TMIC] 13 yr anniversary Cheryl Thanks for sharing your thoughts about your TM anniversary with us. Thirteen years with TM sounds like forever and ever, because I'm just coming up to my five year mark. I've noticed that as time goes by the TM stories get condensed to a few sentences and the details get left behind. I wonder why that is. I don't like to dwell on the details, because they hurt - both physically and mentally. A friend once asked me if I still had a lot of pain and I said yes, but I don't want to talk about it, I'm trying to ignore it as much as possible. Another possibility is that we've heard so many TM stories that we begin to realize how much they sound alike and we know that other TMers don't need the details, because they can all read between the lines and can imagine what's being left out. There really is a happy in your anniversary - You're here to share it with us! Blessings to you Patti - Michigan ---- "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > Today marks my 13th year with tm.I was 39. > I was paralyzed from T4 down ,and after rehab used a wheelchair and then a walker.Then I used a cane for a while,but now I'm back to the walker. > I have numbness from T4 down,except for a few areas of hypersensitivity on my left leg.Strong banding around my trunk since the day of onset.Tingling and burning pain remain a constant.One leg feels any temperature touching it as icy cold,the other as burning hot. > I only perspire on the right side of my face.Why,when my lesion was T4-T5?Nobody knows. > I look back,and it seems like it hasn't been that long,yet in other ways it seems like forever. > There is life after tm,just a totally different one. > > Cheryl in sunny Easthampton,MA.
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