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Sorry to hear those results, but now we can go forward with
treatment :-) Will be thinking of you and keeping you in my prayers,
I will be with you. Let me know if you need anything.<br>
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Hugs Margherita<br>
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On 1/31/2011 10:12 AM, Melina de Mantua wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal">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. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My love to you all,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Melina<o:p></o:p></p>
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