Re: tmic-digest Digest V97 #189

Joseph M. Chavez (jchavez(AT)mato.com)
Sun, 17 Aug 1997 19:32:18 -0600

Caren,
I really agree with you that TM is not caused by a virus. When my daughter
got sick she was not sick at any time before that. The doctors tried to
tell me she had to of had a cold and I just didn't notice. Her peditrician
now thinks that she had a very bad sinus infection that caused her body to,
for some reason, attack her spinal cord, But her nuero insists that it was
a virus.
Tami

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> From: LCSWE(AT)aol.com
> To: tmic-list(AT)eskimo.com
> Subject: Re: tmic-digest Digest V97 #189
> Date: Saturday, August 16, 1997 1:37 PM
>
> Our doctor, a rehab doctor specializing in children had told us that TM
does
> not occur, except in very very rare cases, more than once. It is a
> condition, not a virus. For reasons unknown, the persons immunne system
goes
> haywire and attacks to spinal cord. In some instances a virus may, and I
> stress may, be present in the body that the immune system was supposed to
> attack. In my daughter's case,as well as another child who got TM 2 days
> before, neither was sick, and neither had any virus ascertainable. Our
> doctor has assurred us that we should not be concerned with another
attack,
> and in fact if she were to have another attack, it would probably
indicate
> that something else beyond TM was going on. I hope this helps. Caren
>