--- Jeffrey A Douglass <FINKELMEYER(AT)prodigy.net>
wrote:
> Hi,I'm Jeff Douglass,
> I got TM about 8 or 9 years ago.I had walked over
> to the local pub one block from my house.Shot a
> couple games of pool
> with a freind,then sat down and had two beers.Every
> thing felt normal,UNTIL, I got up to walk home.My
> right leg was numb
> and completely stiff.Quite embarrassing, having to
> have help to get home after two beers.I took quite a
> razzing over that one.
> TM hits quick.
> I went to the doctor three days later because the
> problem didn't go away.He sent me to a
> neurologist.X-ray,CAT-scan,MRI
> you know the drill.Then he told me that I may
> have,A.TM, B.MS, orC. cancer on my spinal cord.Then
> took a months
> vacation in Chicago without giving me a definate
> diagnosis.After he got back he told me it was TM and
> scheduled me for
> steroid treatment.Which I took on an outpatiant
> basis because I have five kids and a mortgage.It was
> like he expected me to
> let it go at that.I had to pitch a fit to get him to
> give me a referal for physical therapy.They had no
> idea what to do with me,so
> I pitched another,and he sent me to the KU
> Medcenter.They told me I had a scar where the lesion
> had been,and I was pretty
> much stuck with the symptoms.I havn't been to see
> anyone about it since.My job is pretty good physical
> therapy,I'm grounds
> keeper on 23 acres.
> I have been reading some of the stuff in the
> archives on relationships.My ex was not very
> understanding of my physical
> inabilities.She thought I didn't love her anymore.So
> I have been divorced for three years.She should have
> waited for Viagra
> to come out.It really does help.
>
> Later,
> Jeff
>
> Finkelmeyer(AT)Prodigy
>
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