My step-son was diganosed with TM 3 years ago. This is his sad story.
Abraham was sitting on the floor playing nintendo while visiting his mother (he lives with his father and I). He got up to get a bowl of ice cream. Abraham deceided he didn't want ice cream so he went back and sat down to watch his brother play the game. About 5 minutes later he tried to stand and discovered that he could not feel his legs any more. He told the babysitter (his mother had gone to work and left him with a sitter instead of bringing him home) that he couldn't feel his legs. The sitter took him to his mom's work where he was sat on a couch. About 2 hours later she told him to get up they were leaving. He told her, "Mom I told you I can't feel my legs. I can't walk." That is when she took him to the hospital. He broke out in chicken pox during the night and that is when they said TM. It kept spreading until he was paralized to his waist. Then for whatever reason it stopped. He was never given stroids or other medicine to reverse this effect. He got a little better, now he
only cannot feel his legs to his hips. After reading about these other cases I am begining to wonder if he had the wrong doctors?
Elizabeth Guerrero
frog37(AT)usa.net
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