Uncategorized 09 Aug 2005 10:11 am
There’s no Hallmark card for this, is there?
One of my mom’s friends, Jacqueline, has been confined to a wheelchair for thirty years or so. Doctors thought she suffered a spinal cord injury in a car accident.
A couple of weeks ago, Jacqueline had surgery to remove a brain tumor.
She can walk now.
Not very well, of course — her legs have atrophied. Still, she takes a few steps each day under the guidance of her physical therapist.
Everybody’s dumbfounded.
on 09 Aug 2005 at 10:26 am 1.amy s. said …
WOW! As a PT-in-training, I find that absolutely amazing! I would love to be the PT on that case. (If she’s in the area, I wonder if she could do a talk on the case for the rehab department at the school?)
Best wishes to Jacqueline, I hope she recovers well.
on 09 Aug 2005 at 10:37 am 2.Cam Sculpin said …
Good thought! I’ll see if I can get the PT’s name.
on 09 Aug 2005 at 10:44 am 3.Canyonwren said …
That’s completely stunning. Best of luck to her!
on 09 Aug 2005 at 11:06 am 4.Mia said …
Wow!
on 09 Aug 2005 at 11:10 am 5.Amare said …
That’s really quite amazing!
on 09 Aug 2005 at 12:12 pm 6.Spaceling said …
In 30 years had no one thought to do a cat scan or MRI of her brain? It’s wonderful that she can walk again, but I can’t help but wonder why it took 30 years to figure out why she couldn’t.
on 09 Aug 2005 at 1:07 pm 7.trinajo said …
that’s awesome! sad too, that she possibly could have been walking all these years, but there’s no going back and it’s not going to change things to be bitter so *wow*. good for her. i’m sure with the right treatments and therapies she will be walking more and more.
on 09 Aug 2005 at 3:08 pm 8.Rechercher said …
Holy crap! That’s got the be the best silver lining I’ve ever heard. “Well, the bad news is that I had to have a brain tumor removed. But the good news is that I can now walk again.”
Very strange, but very cool.
on 09 Aug 2005 at 3:48 pm 9.Cam Sculpin said …
As far as I know, nobody actually figured out why she couldn’t walk. The surgeons removed the brain tumor on general principle. A few weeks later, hey, check it out, walking!
I have no idea whether a cat scan or MRI was ever done before very recently.
on 09 Aug 2005 at 3:50 pm 10.co149 said …
If I discovered that a brain tumor kept me from walking all that time, then once I’d gotten my strength back I’d be gunning for every deity in the pantheon in epic revenge. Most of ‘em are already on my shit list as it is…