[QUOTE=MDinpain;1015159]dearest TK
HEED TO THAT ADVICE
MY CHILD 32
suffered her first seizure April 30,2003
since then walking through it all with all
she has gone through every test imaginable
in the end 19 days for her being hooked up to
leads as a graft was put on her brain
to find exactly where her seizures emanated from
in the end of it all and i mean many thing happened
including brain surgery having part of her occipital lobe
removed as the culprit lay there her neurosurgeon known
to be part of the Gama Ray Knife and a awesome epileptologist
who has been with her from the beginning to date
i do not tell you any of this to scare you but to educate you
sounds to me in order for such results you were hooked up
and monitored how did you get this information frontal lobe problems
and most certainly take yourself to the hospital as many
times you need to i plead seizures are not to be messing around with
there are all kinds of seizures did yours go into a
total brain seizure known as a grand mal are or rather was
one or more than one in what we call an episode
i will stop here if i can direct you to my daughters suggested
go facebook go on "the epileptic network (ten) for short
my daughter is updating her Experience Strength and Hope
and how it brought her to her bliss
Saraeve is a self published poet
so so very proud and inspirational
and beautiful inside and out
there needs to be more like her and they are
out there but NEED more of them Angels
with wings cause she is flying in her bliss
"words"
she is a poet
coming into her own
making a difference in the world
all my children are beautiful and smart
the kind of smart that comes along with
pain in one form or another
just to name a few mental illness that
ranges from addicts to schizophrenias
we are somewhere in the middle
this be my belief
not selling anything
i happen to believe
my granddaughter sooooooooooo smmmmmmmart
odds against her just genetics alone
wow did i go on
just out to help
seizures
no joke

someone who cares

Mark, just seeing pictures on our local news here about Colorado and the awful floods that you have experienced over there.

Please let us know that all is well with you and your family and we will pray that all those people missing will be found safe and well.

Our thoughts are with you all at this time.

Interesting it is when the news publishes a story saying the floods were of BIBLICAL proportion.....hmmmmm........

Imagine twenty foot walls of water washing down frontrange/foothill canyons..... all of them. Houses which just disappeared. People who did the same. Communities cut off from the world because roads do not go there any longer. Over 19,000 homes seriously damaged or destroyed. We do not get hurricanes, and have not known the scope of such trouble suffered by our coastal friends. This is just a taste of their pain.

Our family is just fine. We remained high and dry.

Friends of ours had decided to celebrate 50 years of marriage this coming weekend in a little mountain community called AllensPark. It is quaint. It is pretty. It is remote. There is now only one road there by a circuitous route. But campers have been turned away by the Highway Department [CDOT they call it]. We are supposed to take our camper, but may not be able to do so and will thus not have a place to stay. This will have to be figured out. Maybe tomorrow.

So, for a picture on the situation, take a look online at the picturesque community of Estes Park, Colorado. It is beautiful... People vacation there from far away. All roads to Estes Park are GONE [and there were five rising up from the plains] save one. This particular road is called Trail Ridge Road, check it out. It travels through Rocky Mountain National Park and rises up to about 12,000 feet on a narrow ledge road going quite a ways above timberline. THIS is the only road into the town of Estes Park now. No one except emergency vehicles are allowed to use it as it is the only lifeline for supplies to provide the needs of a community of thousands. We had hoped to take our little car along this weekend and motor over to Estes Park, but were told there is no longer a road. We are not talking road damage here, but the scouring of roads from the face of the earth as though there had never been a road.

So, if we make it up to the anniversary celebration, we may just be there and sit a spell, then make our way back home. That is if we travel. It does not sound too safe..... maybe I had better get ahold of MDinPain and see whether he could be hired for guard duty over our camper.

Prayin all is well with you Jackiey and every one of our friends on the Emerald Isle and that other large Isle to the East of ya..

Glad to see you and your family Mark56 are above water and still sucking wind. Thats always a good thing.

Mark great to read all good with you.

Yes all good here. Minding my grandchildren is a dream. SCS still doing great. Have a review in a couple of weeks. Life has changed for the better and I'm so loving it .

Tay safe if you go to the anniversary. It would be awful if you can't celebrate but safety is paramount.

Have finally got over the initial grieving that one goes through when the surgeon announces that "You can never have back surgery again" (Yay .. hope I don't do anything else to my back!)

Am mentally good .. am physically OK .. in charge of my meds and have somehow (no idea how) seem to have either lost weight or toned up, so am feeling better about my body image. (Yes, it's sad .. I still care about what I look like).

Have started doing more crafty type things which I aim to take up more seriously once Hollie is back at Uni and plan to sell them at Car Boot sales.

Had an awful time recently.

Hollie's first (she's only had three) boyfriend - who she went out with for over two years and they are still best of friends .. like brother and sister. Well, she had cancer .. had a kidney removed .. was given chemo and radiotherapy and told she had the all clear.

Only .. they didn't scan her head ... Conor went on holiday .. two days into his holiday his Mum was admitted to Hospital having had fits.

The cancer had spread to her brain.

She died less than a week ago with her son at her side. She was able to tell him she loved him .. he was able to do the same .. they squeezed hands, but on Friday 13th, she lay there, peacefully .. and that evening she passed away.

He is her only son. She brought him up on her own.

She re married and her "present" husband is a horrible man .. he not only physically abused Conor when he first married his Mum .. but when Conor's Mum had finished the chemo and radiotherapy, he took her on holiday. When she said she didn't feel like going down to the bar for a drink .. he wrecked a chair in the room and hit her and shook her.

Hollie is being so very strong for Conor ..

I ask for your prayers for Conor in these months to come.

Thank you.

For Connor, for Hollie, for the horrible man to be overcome with the need to right his life, for you as you support Hollie......

So glad to see you on the board!

HUGZZZZZZZZ