Thread: The Lives of Others

The link I've posted here, Home, is about the life of my nine year old granddaughter. Any time I think I have it tough, rough or just unjust I recall images of her in the middle of one of her seizures. Please, please, know that I am NOT soliciting funds. I'm posting this here to remind us all that we are more than just ourselves. How petty our lives can be when compared to the struggles other people go through.

Thank you for sharing.

One of my coworkers ( and also a good friend) has just been diagnosed with leukemia. He is 52 with 3 kids and may never get to walk his two daughters down the Isle at their weddings. I look at my two daughters and think of how heart breaki.g that must be for him and his girls.

Thanks for posting Richard, and my heart goes out to Abigail and your family.

Hope and love!

Originally Posted by HARRYWALLY

One of my coworkers ( and also a good friend) has just been diagnosed with leukemia. He is 52 with 3 kids and may never get to walk his two daughters down the Isle at their weddings. I look at my two daughters and think of how heart breaki.g that must be for him and his girls.

Thanks for posting Richard, and my heart goes out to Abigail and your family.

Hope and love!

Andrew, my dad passed many years ago from leukemia. Science has come a long, long way since then. I'm sure, if it was caught early it will be subdued into remission. I am now in my seventh year of remission from my own cancer and, for a non-religious person, I say a daily prayer for it to continue. Please let your friend know that a stranger to him is thinking positive thoughts his way.

Thanks for sharing. She is a cutie and it must be terrifying for her to experience the things she does. And not knowing where or when it will happen must put a terrible stress on all who love her. I hope as she matures and medicine progresses a treatment will be found that works or she will grow out of it.

Originally Posted by Razorfeld

The link I've posted here, Home, is about the life of my nine year old granddaughter. Any time I think I have it tough, rough or just unjust I recall images of her in the middle of one of her seizures. Please, please, know that I am NOT soliciting funds. I'm posting this here to remind us all that we are more than just ourselves. How petty our lives can be when compared to the struggles other people go through.

How right you are my friend, it puts my own life into prospective. Thanks for sharing this. Love and positive thoughts from another stranger to all who need it.

I truely feel for you and your family Razorfeld, I grew up with my brother having Ceribal Paussy and suffering epilepsy with full on drop down fits (seizures) most of my pre 20's life and everytime it was a horrifically gut wrenching experience as a family member, and then I have my youngest son who was diagnosed with muscle motive and vocal ticks (Tourettes after 12 months of having it) at the age of 5 (now 17) which is just awesome also, but I must admit after a while I can only see the funny side of it maybe I am just desensitised after a lifetime of alternative experiences, but I am glad that both have out grown and got passed the worst of their problems and can only hope Abigail does also.
My heart goes out to you and wish for the best.

Thanks for your post Substance. Know that I have had battle all my life with what I call tics and jerks. It has not been on the level of a diagnosis and it has not impeded daily life. It has diminished as I aged and it is now rarely that an 'event' happens. I found, that for me, if I image a constant one tone sound (I call it an unheard white noise) I have a smooth day. Probably the one tic that gets to me the most is a nose twitch. I always thought that I should have been in the cast of the old TV program Bewitched because of it.

You would be surprised, any tick weather muscle or vocal for more than a year is diagnosable as Tourette's. My young lad would hold them in all day fighting it at school then come home relax and bounce a full 6" of the floor while lying here watching TV making all sorts of vocal tick none you want your kids saying that's for sure.

Originally Posted by Substance

You would be surprised, any tick weather muscle or vocal for more than a year is diagnosable as Tourette's. My young lad would hold them in all day fighting it at school then come home relax and bounce a full 6" of the floor while lying here watching TV making all sorts of vocal tick none you want your kids saying that's for sure.

Substance,
I empathize with you and your son. My oldest boy has many tics and quirks that have a tendency to alienate him from his peers. While not diagnosed as Tourettes by professionals (they say he is just severe ADHD; a diagnosis I am not fully satisfied with), he tries so hard to hold it all in while at school. This, of course, causes a lot of behavior my wife has extreme difficulty dealing with. I can only imagine what a parent goes through watching their child struggle through more dangerous and potentially damaging maladies. My thoughts go out to all, children and parents alike, who deal with these afflictions every day.