Janice:
Thank you so much! I am very proud of her. She has come so far since she was
hit with TM in 5th grade. She was out of her wheelchair and walked, with
crutches across the 6th grade graduation stage. She received a standing ovation
from the entire crowd as well as her class. Her goal for her graduation this
year is to walk the stage with no crutches at all. I have every faith in her
that she can do it and the teachers want to help her achieve it and will do
whatever they need to do so that she can accomplish her biggest goal to date.
She has maintained straight A's from the time she was hit with TM until now.
She will do well in college and will be great in whatever job she decides on.
This is so bittersweet for me and I am tearing up as I type this. I have
watched her grow from a scared 5th grader paralyzed from the waist down to a
beautiful and confident 18 year old young woman who can walk with crutches and
quite a few steps without crutches who has become a member of the National
Honor Society, a straight student and now a college student. She has a heart of
gold and won't let anything stop her from becoming who she wants to be. She is
still very grounded though as she wants a good job, a loving husband, a few
children, a home with a white picket fence and she wants to stay in the small
county that we live in so that she can be near our family and her brother and
sister. She has been dating a specific guy for 9 months now and they are
talking about getting engaged while she is in college, getting married when she
graduates and then starting her family. She has made me so proud of who she has
become.
I want to thank everyone on here. Several of you on here have helped when I had
questions or concerns and have always encouraged her to be whatever she wanted
to be. For that, I will forever be grateful!
Tracey L. Black
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Hockley & O'Donnell Insurance Agency
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-----Original Message-----
From: Pat Cooley [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 10:44 AM
To: Tracey L. Black
Cc: Jan ice Nichols; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [TMIC]
Tracey please congratulate Ashlee for me. She sounds like a remarkable young
lady. With her determination she will go far in the future. You must be VERY
proud.
Patti
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Tracey L. Black <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Janice:
> Ashlee hit her 7 year mark in February. There are still mornings that she
> will wake up wet, but normally if she sleeps longer than normal. She normally
> limits her liquid intake in the evenings and then pees when she is getting
> ready for bed and then goes again right before she gets in bed. She is on
> 15mg of Oxybutnin a day, which she takes in the morning. At one point she had
> been on a 10mg in the morning and a 5mg at night and that worked but just got
> to be a pain b/c she takes all of her other pills in the morning.
> I just want to let you all know that on June 5 she will be graduating from
> High School. She is a member of the National Honor Society and is 41 in her
> class of about 200 students. She has about a 4.0 gpa. She is scheduled to
> take a summer math course at HACC starting in mid July for 4 weeks 4 days a
> week and then starts her 4 fall classes at the end of August. She is going
> for her Associates Degree in Business Administration/Management.
>
> Tracey L. Black
> Certified Insurance Service Representative Hockley & O'Donnell
> Insurance Agency PO Box 3039, 132 Buford Avenue Gettysburg, PA 17325
> Phone: 717-334-6741, x 29
> Fax: 717-334-3414
> Office hours: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
> My hours: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pat Cooley [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 10:02 AM
> To: Jan ice Nichols
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [TMIC]
>
> Janice I experience bladder problems similar to yours. I am not bothered
> much with spasms. I do exerience them at times in my legs.
> It has been 4 yrs for me, at least in June it will be 4 yrs. I have noticed
> that when I don't get ti the bathroom regularly, I experience pains just
> above my pelvic bone. Much like prementrual cramps. That tells me it is time
> to go potty.
>
> My nights are like yours. Some mornings I find that I am almost dry; others
> I am completely soaked even though I may get up to go potty 2-3 times during
> the night. I have a large pad that goes completely over my bed as I
> experience leaking on those heavy nights. It doesn't matter how much I drink
> at night. I was told to restrict liquids after 6:00 pm which I do. Only
> drinking enough to be able to take my pills. I don 't think doctors really
> know what is going on when you have TM. It is s frustrating.
>
> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 2:45 AM, Janice Nichols <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Patti in Wisconsin
>
>> Hi TM'ers,
>>
>> This question probably pertains mostly to female TM'ers, but maybe not.
>>
>> Is it my imagination or have you all noticed that spasms increase
>> from the waist down, legs included, when the bladder is saying it is
>> time to go to the bathroom? I have changed the wording several
>> times to make it say what I am trying to ask. Hope you get my meaning.
>>
>> Also, have any of you gotten consistent improvement in bladder
>> control or have you pretty much leveled out as far as improvement is
>> concerned. If you keep improving, please give me the length of
>> time you have had TM. I have had TM for
>> 5 years and seem to go back and forth, sometimes 2-3 weeks at a time,
>> waking up with wet pads and then, for a while, fairly dry (but never
>> completely). It doesn't seem to matter how much I drink during
>> the day or in the evening. When I was in the hospital, the
>> doc's kept talking about my bladder needing time to "wake up" after
>> being paralyzed. Well, mine seems to wake up a little and then
>> snoozes again. Frustrating.
>>
>> Janice
>
