Re: Hello from Arkansas
Jo Ellen Finkelstein (ghellen(AT)ninenet.com)
Sat, 25 Oct 1997 21:28:17 -0500
CHSM(AT)aol.com wrote:
>
> Hi Joellen, my name is Carol. I read that you were a nurse and I was
> wondering if you had the series of HepB vaccines that nurses are required to
> receive? If so, were they given anytime near the onset of your TM, perhaps a
> month or two before? My son received the first of the series one month
> before he was diagnosed with TM, which was Sept. 96 and a classmate of his
> was just diagnosed Sept. 97 with TM. He also received the HepB vaccine one
> month before his diagnosis. Any connections????????????Hi Carol, I was not doing any active nursing for 6 months before the TM
hit, (my husband was diagnosed with terminal cancer and I had stayed
home before he died in April, I got TM in October) I hadn't had these
injections but had had some problems with strep and staf infections
which may have had some influence. By the time my Doctors figured out
wehat I had any bacteria or viruses were out of my body. Sorry I can't
be of more help! Joellen