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My name is Jim Lubin. I was diagnosed with acute transverse myelitis in
1989. I woke up the morning of May 17th with a sore neck on my right side.
I thought I had just slept wrong, took a couple Tylenol and went to work.
About an hour later, I started feeling dizzy and the pain in my right
shoulder increased. I loss feeling in my legs and couldn't stand. I started
lossing my breath just as the paramedics got there. That is the last thing I
remember until I woke up in ICU; I couldn't move and couldn't speak. To make
a long story short, I had a MRI several weeks later which showed a lession
at the c1/c2 level.
I'm still paralyzed from the neck down and completely dependent on a
ventilator to breathe. I can now feel everything except my right arm and
have less feeling on my whole right side.
Well that's basically my story. I hope everyone would stay on and introduce
yourselves. Be sure to check my home page!
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Jim
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Jim Lubin jlubin(AT)eskimo.com
Bothell, WA, USA http://www.eskimo.com/~jlubin
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