No apologies necesssary whatsoever for the length of your
dissertation. The more the rest of us hear the more we get an idea of what
others go through and from my point of view gain insight into the
possibility of regaining some sort of function.
What I hear you saying is that presentation and "cure" rates vary
tremendously but more importantly that with TM there almost seems in a lot
of cases to be a very slow but gradual progress. This, for me, is in
contradistinction to spinal cord injuries which seem to hit the max at
between three and six months in most cases. This is unfortunate because
the physio people I have run into need to be reminded that TM is NOT spinal
cord injury --AND I believe a positive attitude is very important --but if
it's "taken away from you" at six months it's tough --of course there are
those who could argue that no one can take away from you something that you
are not willing to give up (at least in a mental sense).
Anyway --thanx for your contributions and stay tuned for some good
exchanges. I've left this to the last since last time I mentionned this I
got blasted as if I was one of those creatures from Independance Day
--sorry to hear you were having insurance problems. With a disease as
maddening as this --or any other, I suppose, the last thing you need is
some idiotic bureaucrat telling you or your doctor what is and is not
appropriate. At least in Canada the idiotic bureaucrat is as this point in
time the government itself, so nobody takes that too seriously. God forbid
the day when a profit motivated organizaton takes over health care here
(never I hope). There, that's my (medico)political commentary for the day
;-)
Bryan