Donna

Christian Graus

Thanks to the people who offered their well wishes below. It seemed appropriate to just post and report. Donna woke up one morning while I was last in the US, with a paralyzed face. When I raced home, they thought it was MS or a brain tumour. It took them another month, in which time she lost strength in her legs, to work out that it is sarcoid. She is on pills to control it, and is doing OK, except that she still has no facial movement, and gets tired easily. Doctors expected that movement to be back by now, so it's an unknown how much will ever come back, or how long it will take, but it's still a lot better than MS or a tumour,

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I hope she gets better :love:

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Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira

Hi Christian, I wish Donna a good, full recovery. :rose: She's a lucky girl for having you around.

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Christian Graus

*grin* I tell her that ALL the time....

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Dalek Dave

Whilst it is not pleasant, at least it is not as bad as you first feared. I am sure we all here wish her a speedy recovery.

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HimanshuJoshi

My prayers are with her :rose:

Mike Hankey

At least there's hope...Gods speed.

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Christian Graus

Well, exactly. And while there's obvious reasons I'd like my wife to be able to move her mouth ( although I tell her she's a dynamite kisser now ), even if it stays the way it is, it's not the end of the earth, she's not going to die or get worse. So, I feel like the worst is behind us.

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Graham Shanks

I hope Donna keeps geting better. Reading up on it, it seems as if it could be a while but it is curable it most cases. If having a large number of people wishing for her recovery can help then she should be OK

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Dave Kreskowiak

Sorry man. I hope thing improve quickly. I know hard it can be. We just lost my wife's mom a couple of months ago to complications from MS.

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Joan M

Somehow I managed not to know about that... Feel sorry for that, let's hope she will be fine soon. :rose:

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Christian Graus wrote:

there's obvious reasons I'd like my wife to be able to move her mouth

Wait, she can't move her mouth? Does that mean she can't talk? Dude, you have the perfect woman! ;P Only kidding, I wish you and her the best life together regardless of whether or not she gets better. :rose:

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Christian Graus

She can talk, with a slur. She can eat. She isn't really able to kiss, or to smile, or to show emotion. And, I know you were kidding :P I'm just clarifiying for the room in general, I smiled at your comment.

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Rutvik Dave

This is very sad, I was wondering why we dont see you around, Let's hope that everything will be allright soon :rose: sometimes time ticks very slow in the life...

smcnulty2000

Went through something similar with my wife (also named Donna) several years ago. With her it was Bell's Palsy. We thought it was a stroke at the time. Scared the hell out of me. I hope she does better. I hope you don't have too bad of a physical/emotional collapse. I recall that was a hard part for me.

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BillWoodruff

Hi Christian, That is shocking news, and my thoughts and prayers go out to you and Donna. Speaking as a cancer-survivor (successfully treated for a probably less dangerous form of cancer), and as someone who once worked as a field-researcher for the American Cancer Society, I know the both of you are facing a tremendous challenge. During my waiting for treatment, treatment, and recovery, participating in alt.soc.cancer[^] was very valuable for me, even though that is an un-moderated forum, and, thus, subject to spamming and quacks. On that forum was one woman who went by the nym 'J,' who is a virtual encyclopedia of knowledge. There is an oncologist who used to take part, using the nym 'Steph,' who is in the very reputed British Columbia medical system. Another very valuable poster in those days, about four years ago, used the nym 'Kelly Poodle.' An article by Stephen Jay Gould, the late, great popularizer of one of the major flavors of post-Darwin evolutionary theory, titled 'The Median is Not the Message,'[^], was recommended to me on that forum. Gould survived his first experience with cancer (mesotheliomia) by twenty years, and that article provides, I think, a valuably rational way to approach the uncertainty that is experienced when you start hearing "statistics" about a given treatment plan's side-effects, or survival rates, or probabilities of recurrence. I found the article emotionally comforting, as well as intellectually satisfying. take care, Bill

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Tom Deketelaere

I'm glad it isn't as bad as you feared. And I'm hoping for a speedy recovery. My best wishes to you and Donna. :rose:

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Scary shit dude, hang in there.

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Dan Neely

Hoping for the best. :rose:

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It's always shyte but somehow we come out the otherside. While you where away we lost Mrs Wife's father and I found that right here was the perfect place to come and groan. When things are a shyti and you want to scream, don't burdent he family but come on over and call us. From the 50,000 people online, I'm sure someone will be able to be sympathetic. I hope Donna pulls through, but whatver happens - :rose:

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