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From: CARINJEAN(AT)aol.com <CARINJEAN(AT)aol.com>
To: Tmic-list(AT)eskimo.com <Tmic-list(AT)eskimo.com>
Date: Wednesday, 23 June 1999 6:34:pm
Subject: [TMIC] Son
>Hi my name is Karen. My son Ray is right now in Cleveland Clinic awaiting
to
>be brought back here for therapy. He first started having problems with
his
>right leg on Memorial weekend. He continued to go to work that weekend as
he
>had just started that job. On Tuesday he went to see his doctor and was
sent
>to the ER. A Neurologist was called in and an MRI was done. He was put
into
>ICU for two days. A spinal tap was done. The spinal tap showed nothing.
The
>MRI showed some inflammation along the spine, and a lesion on the brain.
>Since he had just started that job he had no insurance, he was told that he
>had a stroke and was sent home with a cane. This was on a Saturday. I
>brought him to my house and each day watched as he grew weaker in his legs.
>I had called the neurologist office each day talking to the nurse that he
was
>getting worse, only to be told that they were waiting for his evoke
>potentials to be faxed to them from the hospital. By Friday night he could
>not lift himself up off the couch, even with a walker I had gotten him, and
>his sister and I on both sides of him. I took him to a different hospital
>ER. They admitted him and run two more MRI's. They did another spinal
tap.
>The spinal tap again showed nothing. They gave him steroids and run dozens
>of blood tests. From a very sympathetic nurse he was told that he might
have
>Acute Transverse Myletis. This nurse ran several letters from this listing
>for him. Finally on a Tues. night another neurologist came up and told him
>that they would be sending him to Cleveland Clinic and that he was being
>treated for TM. Wed he was in Cleveland. They are giving him plasma
>treatments and his last one is tomorrow. So far he has little pain, but a
>burning sensation in his legs. He says like he's been sunburnt. One
doctor
>tells me TM another MS. The nurse that has been taking care of him says
that
>they are really vague as to what is wrong. They are supposed to send him
back
>here to MCO for therapy, but as of today they won't accept him because of
the
>insurance issue. We have applied for Medi. but are waiting. He was told
that
>this was started due to antibiotics that he had taken a month before for
flu
>like symptoms. He is affected from T2 down. He will be 36 next week. I am
>hopeful that once he gets home around his friends and family that will
>therapy he will be able to walk again. Has anyone been told that their
>disability has been attributed to antibiotics?