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> From: MARY L MAXWELL[SMTP:MLMOHM(AT)prodigy.net]
> Sent: Saturday, October 04, 1997 6:50 AM
> To: tmic-list(AT)eskimo.com
> Subject: Re: Hello Patti
>
> Patti maybe you have something else going on with your legs. I have a
> conditions called Restless Leg Syndrom. Very few Doctors have heard
> of it.
> The very first book has been published. Its called Sleep Thief by
> Virgibia N. Wilson and Arthur S.Walters, M.D. and about 20 other
> Doctors,
> so itsnot a fly by night book. Its published by Galaxy Books, Inc.
> P.O.
> Box 1421, Orange Park, Fl 32067 Soft cover is 16.95 with $3.00 mailing
> expense. They only started studying this syndrom in 1994. I am going
> to
> order one for my Doc. Good Luck Mary mlmohm(AT)prodgigy.net
>
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> > From: DCJones <jones(AT)tdl.com>
> > To: tmic-list(AT)eskimo.com
> > Subject: Hello Patti
> > Date: Friday, October 03, 1997 7:09 PM
> >
> > Hello Patti:
> >
> > For myself Patti when the pain or symptoms increased, I found
> this to
> > be a time to look forward to. Because it signaled change, and when
> these
> > symptoms subsided, I found that my condition improved. Most times
> the
> > improvement was slight but other times very noticeable.
> > Pain is pain and we all experience it differently. You can do
> nothing
> > but face it head-on and remember that if I or someone else can take
> it,
> > then so can you.
> > I remember waking in the night and just yelling as load as I
> could in
> > frustration because I was tired and in pain and knew I had to get-up
> and
> > into the standing frame so to stretch my legs so I could go back to
> bed
> > and get maybe two hours more sleep before I awoke again. A year and
> a
> > half before I could get over four hours continuous sleep. I thought
> I'd
> > go nuts and may have sense suicide was in my thoughts daily. But
> here I
> > am, still alive and glad of it.
> > It's so personal it's difficult to describe and no one can
> REALLY
> > understand what your going through but you. So any question about
> making
> > it [so to speak] is between you and the convictions that keep you
> going.
> > But just reaching out as you're doing says your not giving up.
> Your
> > just dam sick of being dam sick and I CAN understand that. And so do
> > many more here reading these poor expressions of feelings typed in
> black
> > and white. Words just are not enough when all seems so hopeless but
> > there all I have, that and my conviction that Gods loves you and
> will
> > make it all clear some day as to why your suffering so.
> >
> > Regards and God bless Patti
> > Dave
>