First a little introduction I guess would be good before I jump off complaining and asking for help and information, eh? My name is Dawn (Screen name Morning Broken, cute huh? LOL). I am 37 years old, and mother to two beautiful children Kristofer (13) and Kathryn (4), and have a wonderful hardworking hubby, Michael. I am a survivor of Chiari Type 1 Malformation surgery in June of 2000. My last post-op MRI was in Nov./Dec. of 2001, during which all was fine and right with the world.

Today I had my first MRI since 2001, to evaluate the Chiari situation due to recent, semi-gradual vision loss over the past year and a half, at the request of my opthamologist. My "psychosis" has caused me to travel all over the web, LOL. Just the thought of the possibility of the chiari comming back, or getting worse, or whatever is horribly frightening to my husband, my son, and myself. (Daughter is "post-chiari", our miracle baby you could say, so she doesnt know what might be happening).

I'm gonna close now, but just wanted to say thankyou to the group moderators for maintaining this site, and to appologize before hand for all the support I might need.