John, you don't do bad for a "hill-billy"!!
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From: "john snodgrass" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 5:02 PM
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: "transverse myelitis" <[email protected]>
Subject: [TMIC] Unidentified subject!
To Emily and her Husband.
TM truely is a shock to all involved.
I mean,,,,,who would ever imagine this would happen.
one of my Doc's said TM was something you looked at in med school but
never seen
it.
my neurologist said all you can do is treat the symptoms and do what you
can
when you can as hard as you can but if you can't then just rest until you
can.
He incourages physical theropy and well should because the parts effected
can go
to sleep,so to speak,and thats another world of hurt!
tell hubby to talk with us,,you talk with us,,,we are interested more than
anybody in how he is doing be it good or unpleasnt as well as how you are
standing up under this new world you are in!
these people have encouraged me more than I can thank them for,,just being
people who truely understand what I have and am suffering.
we all have the hardness of this thing and understand more than anyone
else,,,,we live it with you!
my name is John.
I live in WV
I am the hill-billy of the bunch ;)
(computer tech for 8 years
tractor driver for 5)
anything before that is tooooo old
From:Emily [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 11:11 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [TMIC] New to TM
Hi Everyone,
My husband has recently (September 2nd) been diagnosed with Idiopathic TM.
He
was treated at Pennsylvania Hospital under the care of a team of
Neurologists.
He was given mega doses of Prednisone and is currently weaning with oral
prednisone. He was discharged from the hospital last Thursday and he is
now
working hard at an acute rehabilitation center (3-5 hours each day). He
has a
very positive outlook and is “taking it one day at a time”.
My question is this……is there a support group for spouses of TM?
Emily
