[Namron] OT: For those who have been asking after me...

Jacqueline Reynolds jacqueline.reynolds.namron at gmail.com
Mon Jan 31 13:46:40 PST 2011


You will be in our thoughts as well.  Please call if you need anything.

Lady Jacqueline & family



On Jan 31, 2011, at 1:03 PM, debbie mitchell wrote:

> (((Hugs)))
>  
> Let me know if there is anything I can do for you guys. You are in my thoughts and prayers. We love you both.
>  
> Colette and Tigernauch
> 
> --- On Mon, 1/31/11, Melina de Mantua <shell.atwood at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> From: Melina de Mantua <shell.atwood at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Namron] OT: For those who have been asking after me...
> To: "'Barony of Namron Mailing List'" <namron at lists.ansteorra.org>, "House Wolfstar" <wolfstar at yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Monday, January 31, 2011, 10:12 AM
> 
> Greetings and much love to my Barony and Household. I’m sorry I’ve been so absent lately from our activities and the lists (although I’ve always been pretty quiet on the lists I guess). I haven’t wanted to say anything until the very last possible test could be done and there were no doubts whatsoever, just in case that 5% chance it could be something else did occur.
> 
>  
> I kept it pretty quiet but some of you may remember that I had what was diagnosed as a stroke last January in between the two shoulder surgeries. In late November of this year, I noticed some numbness below my waist, which in December turned into complete numbness all the way to my feet, like I’d been injected with Novocain. The neurologist found a lesion on my spine that was compressing my spinal cord. He went back and looked at the MRI from January and thought that it looked more like MS lesions than a stroke so he ordered a new MRI of my brain. It showed significantly more white matter lesions since January. The final test results came in today, which was the spinal tap. I do have MS with significant progression in just one year.
> 
>   
> I’ve been on steroids for the numbness but it only lessened it slightly. I’ll start steroid infusions, what my Dr. calls a five day steroid blast, as soon as this damn weather permits. If that doesn’t make the numbness go away, then it will likely be permanent.
> 
>   
> Rob and I have gone through a lot the last couple of years, with both of my shoulder injuries and what we thought was a stroke, grief at losing loved ones, and other personal issues. It’s been hard on him not being able to tell people what’s going on so I wanted to let people know what I could at this time so he wouldn’t have to field questions he really couldn’t answer. Feel free to give me a holler if you want to know where I am or how I’m doing on facebook (I’m trying to be better about checking it), in email or text or phone. I’m not trying to be out of contact, it’s just hard when you can’t feel the ground under you (and right now painful on my back) to get around a lot. And the steroids make me very susceptible to colds and such, so I keep catching stuff.
> 
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> I miss my SCA family and plan to be around more. Now that we have the final diagnosis, we can start treatments both for the MS and for the side effects. And, just like my shoulder, I’ll be damned if I’ll let this keep me from playing. It’s just taking me some time to wrap my mind around it and get my feet back under me, with it happening so soon after recovery from the shoulder injuries.
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> My love to you all,
> 
> Melina
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