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This is the most recent post that I have made to MEDHELP, going on possibly 100 or more..:)))

 

Have to warn you just in case what I wrote below is a messed up jumble of words..I didn't change a thing..left it like it was..so, there could be some mis-spelled words and some things might not even make sense, since I was tired when I loaded it up and didn't feel the greatest either..God Bless..<3 <3 <3 K

 

To: Ken_PA

I must say that I am at my wits end. I have been to NL and NS until I am blue in the face and just have a list of things wrong with me, but I feel there is something serious going on and I can't give up. I can't breath now as we speak. I have been having this pain at the base of my skull at the back of my neck. I do have a lump that seems to be growing downwards under my jawline. AT the time of the ultrasound, I am not going to lie, my mouth was just a going. It is a small town we live in and the guy that did my ultrasound was a good friend and our kids were not getting along and I had to tell the reason for why I felt like I did, but in the meantime could've jepordized the procedure. Our kids got to being friends again, but I am still worried @ this lump. I did however talk with my friend again later and noticed a scar from his ear to his chin or maybe lower..I asked him @ it and he said that his parotid had to come out. I figure he would have noticed that in me as well, that is if my mouth didn't ruin it. Do you think I should have another one? I do in a way. It is kind of sore on that area and as I said b4 I hurt at the back of my neck and feel it has something to do with the report that I wasn't suppose to run across..IT said, "There is a small tangled area of vessels in the left cerebellar hemisphere inferiorly w/no associated abnormal FLAIR signal or evidence of vasogenic edema. There is one dominent vessel extending from this." That is all I got out of a garbled mess that was suppose to have been a film of my Thoracic and my Brain & C-spine, but I got this..all I could see at first were a bunch of #'s, but then looked at all of it..saw my name and then this. It has really resonated that there is something there, but why didn't they tell me anything @ any of this. The doc(NL) told me that he found a venous angioma, probably something I was born with it is what he told me.
I am so sorry 4 just unloading it all there..LoL I do have a way of explaining things in detail, but I thought that was a good thing, but sometimes IT IS JUST TOO MUCH..I know..
They did use the word "Lesion" in the end of that group of words. WHY don't they tell u this stuff and at least send u to someone who can help u. I am suffering Ken..is it? I am everywhere because I am sooooo tired of suffering and just want a life. I know there has got to be someone out there that hears me..U know what I mean. I did get ur attention and I think I really got ur attention...LOL..I am sorry. I was counting all of my posts the other day and I think it is definately over 50..maybe 100..I am just so desperate in my search 2 find a doc or at least what kind do I need to see, WHAT would u recommend 4 me..seriously..I don't know. I live in a one hick town down in AR..and there is no MRI machine at our hospital..it is drying up too..ohh, I am just scared I am going to be a statistic and I want to live..got a lot to do yet b4 I die..I have two wonderful teenage boys..they definately  need their mom to help them get through this life.
My body aches, burns in sheets on just different areas, cramping and tightening up of all of my muscles..YEAH, that is the biggy besides all of the other pain I am experiencing. I am baffling docs.. I just think I have too much going on, BUT IT IS happening. I am so sick of a couple of my docs thought I was symptomatic.. I know what that means..just another way of saying it is all in my head.. NO..OH, I have gone and vented now..sawy.:)'
I just seem to have so much pain in all of my muscles like my lactic acid just stays ON ALL day...like I am lifting weights all day, but I can't do a thing that is it. I try..so much do I try to get out of this BED and make myself and sometimes it feels tolerable, but it doesn't take long( I think the most time I get is around an hour,if I am lucky or that back will burn like FIRE) I have other spots that SCARE me..MY BRAIN HURTS,,,HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE??? I feel like someone pushes there thumb into my skull sometimes and that hurts. I hurt on my left temple and have swollen to where it feels like a golf-ball is up there.
I called my NL one time because I thought I was having a stroke because my jaw bone was being pulled down to my collarbone. The whole left side of my face was completely NUMB all the way down my shoulder and my arm...IT was SOO creepy. I feel that whatever this is..is serious,but not getting any HELP..DO u know of anyone or who I could see that would be in around Memphis,TN or Little Rock,AR..I am close to those big cities..I also love Jonesboro,AR since my son lives there going to College..would love a visit..You take care and thank you 4 reading all @ my life..I left a lot out..actually..:))) <3 K

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      Well, I am sorry if what, below looks like a garbled up mess. I am not completely  computer literate here..u know. So, I just copied and pasted this, after I saved it..and fell asleep twice while trying to post it. lost all of it, once.
     At least, I have learned to do that much on the computer, but the bad part is that I don't know what to do @ the post that includes all of the these:( << > letters & #'s)..I was sort of lost in that part, but I just left it that way and then I saved it. 
     I am desparate now with all of the shaking my head has been doing (not real bad at the moment, it has it times) and my left arm does it too, so I went ahead and posted it. Sure, I am scared of what it says, but shouldn't, I guess NOT...
     I KNOW, I SHOULD JUST LEAN ON THE LORD FOR THIS. HE TAKES CARE OF EVERYTHING...THAT is, IF YOU HAVE ENOUGH FAITH and I do have that..:))
    
     I have just been down for so long. Ever since, I had that surgery on my C5-C6 (where I had a spinal diskectomy). I have been down to where I couldn't do a thing and the PAIN can be incredibly horrid.   
     When I saw it, I believed it and PRAYED that The Lord would just take it away, HE CAN. "NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE WITH THE LORD. 

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This is a picture of most of us in The cast of Country Music USA(Dean Sams of "Lonestar" and Ken Mellons, in which has a new bluegrass album coming out), when I(the one in the bright yellow shirt) worked in Opryland( I wanted to say that we lost a member of our group, Don Hayes RIP and we are going to miss u. He did our Willy Nelson and was the best.
When I worked there...It was a wonderful, MAGICAL time in my life...when I could do anything I wanted and I was so healthy.."You never know what you got until it is gone".
What happened down that road. What did someone do to me? That question goes out to the wonderful..not..Doctor who did my surgery and left big HOLES in my neck(no telling what else he done to me..he might have left something behind or in there) or it uld be to the wonderful Doctor who hit me with a needle in my spine from an MRI...hmmm. I wonder which one it is..IT feels like it it BOTH...really, I do because it doesn't make sense why I am bedridden and can't stand hardly or walk. My arms can't hold anything and my PAIN level goes from 5-10..and sometimes that 10 feels like a 20..


Do you know what the bad thing @ it is...NO ONE can look at you and say you have this or y0u have that..THEY have to test it. Yeah, I probably look okay, but that doesn't mean I am not in PAIN.. just look at this pic and you can see I am miserable and HATE IT..
You can tell I am miserable and that is everyday 4 me(my son took this pic of me at a wonderful moment and you can even see that great Fentanyl Patch that I have to wear for pain). There has got to be a way that I can get "back on my feet again" and not have to take meds at ALL. As much as I want to go fishing with my boys this Spring, my right arm is of no use to me much..except for typing..THANK GOD..or I would probably lose my mind just laying here.


When you click on the link below it will take you straight to MedHelp. It will take you to a comment page, but click on my profile and you can read if you like, but then you MUST click on my Watchlist...soooo many posts asking for help..Yeah, I am not well, but I AM NOT GIVING UP!!!!

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I love this MedHelp site and in anyway I can get others aware of the kind and caring people that are there, that would help you with anything. When the site comes up, remember it will be my sent message page or comment page, but click on my profile and DEFINATELY go to my watch list. There you will find ALL of the questions I have posted(probably a hundred or more) that can give u a lot of insight on what in the world is going on with me and it will connect you so many resources on finding answers.
As you know, I have been suffering with this syndrome,disease or failed fusion( seems to me NO ONE knows :o).

I know there is something besides the list of things that they say are wrong with me. I just want to get well. Isn't that what DOCTORS are for.I am beginning to wonder if they care enough to try and get me well.
I pray that who is having problems like I am will follow the links that I have provided on my site to help u in any way possible. I PRAY 4 ANYONE THAT HAS TO SUFFER THIS KIND OF PAIN...NO ONE SHOULD!!!!
I have the last MRI's coming.."Lord Willing", they do. It *(being sent from my last NL that said what I had was out of his area of expertise) and I hope when I get to the Vascular Neurosurgen that he will find THE answer 4 me..4 it seems to me that the Doctor's community is only interested in filling their pockets, NOT finding what is wrong with a person these days..and THAT my dear is sooooo sad..:((((

GOD BLESS 2 all of u that are suffering and shouldn't...always.. Karen /div>

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This is a picture of all of the arteries that run through your brain. I noticed that the Occipital is right next to the Venous Angioma that I have back there, that I have never in my entire life had trouble with. I was a cheerleader that did flips in High School and worked in Nashville,TN., where I sange and danced on stage. I would know if I ever had hurt there and I know I haven't even had headaches, much in my whole life, until now. I never have hurt in the back of my neck and that really makes me wonder if the NL was wrong, when he told me that I probably was born with it. I also have a Chiari Malformation and I am concerned that the wiring I have back there has entertwined with the Venous Angioma, in some way. IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE? It sure feels like something is really wrong. If you look at the structure of how the arteries connect, you can see that it is very possible. It looks like it to me.
I am having sharp pains that shoot from my temple down my neck. I don't know if I should go to the Hospital or not, that is the problem. Our hospital doesn't even have an MRI machine, so how would they even know if I had a vein in my head that maybe was blocked or not. The position, this has put me in, is not good. I know, I should move away from this town, but my mom and dad live right next door and I feel I should be close to them in their older age..just in case I could help them in some way, but It looks like I am the one who needs help.
YEAH, and where is the help we need in this town of Helena or as someone put it earlier..hell-na? I am not saying that they haven't or don't help, I am saying there is no one in this town that knows @ what is going on with me, except for maybe my PCP. Thank God, I do have a Doctor that helps me with my pain, for I don't know where I would be now. Thank you, Dr. Winston...I don't know what I would do without your help.
I could use all the prayers I can get now. I fervently believe in prayer and GOD. I know, He has kept me around..maybe a little while longer to see how my boys are going to turn out. I have been sick for a long time*(5yrs. or more, right after surgery).
Would you read the section, I believe right under this one, it is where I got an answer from a Doc off of the net, but if you read it all, you will see that I give her all of the details I could think of, but if you can think of anything else I should know that she missed, I would really appreciate getting in touch with me some way. You can try to comment to let me know,please comment, if it'll let you post one*(stuborn thing).
All I need now is to make it another month, until (APRIL 6th) and I will get to see a Vascular Neurosurgen...it sure seems like a long time and wonder if I should go somewhere else while I am waiting to see this VN, just in case (God forbid) what is going on is deadly..I PRAY THAT IT ISN'T...DEAR LORD, PLEASE LET ME LIVE TO SEE MY BOYS GROW UP AND BE THERE 4 THEM..AND NOT GO B4 MY PARENTS FOR IT WOULD DO THEM IN AND I DEFINATELY DON'T WANT THAT...PLEASE LORD HELP ME..IN JESUS NAME..AMEN <3 Karen Elmore

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I AM LOOKING FOR ANY INFORMATION ABOUT SURGERY TO REMOVE SURGERY YEARS AFTER A SPINALFUSION.. CAN ANYONE ASSIST ME WITH WHERE TO LOOK FOR ANSWERS? SO FAR I HAVE NOT FOUND ANYTHING HERE. THE DR STATES IT SHOULD BE REMOVED BECAUSE ITHAS SERVED IT'S PURPOSE. IS THIS A VERY PAINFUL SURGERY,HOW LONG IS THE SURGERY AND RECOVERY?
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      I am not famous...nor did I ever want to be as I was growing up..Really, I am just a down home country girl at heart, who LOVES 2 SING. I know that not many people would answer the way I did, but I guess I am different. I always have been. I never really fit in at School or at least I felt that way. I had friends and wasn't a nerd or anything. I was more of a loner, but I was an only child growing up. So, I never was an open person kind of person, I was to myself a lot. I had friends, but I was learning to come out of my shell by my Jr. year in High School because I done all the plays they done. I was in "Carousel", 'The Sound of music",and a couple of more that escapes my memory at the time.
     I was just opening up to the true nature of the music that was inside of me. It was the best thing that I could do. I needed to get involved with working with others and this was it. I never regret all the experience I have gathered in my lifetime.

     My fault was dating just one guy and then when I graduated, I married him. I tell you, I turned 19 in August, after graduating, and then got married in October of the same year. I should have been horsewhipped. I told someone that I should have been packed up in a crate and shipped off to China..I would have probably been better off. I didn't have a clue to what in the world I was doing. As a matter of fact, it flooded the bottom out that night...I mean like 6 inches or something. When he was trying to get us to our house, he had to pull the truck right up to the doorstep. The water was all the way up to the top step...talking @ omens...LOL..sorry. I was in my wedding dress. We didn't have any money for a honeymoon. I mean this was crazy.

     I have always had the gift of gab..I just chose not to use it a lot when I was very young. As I grew, I found that I got good at the gift of gab and usually wound up putting my foot in my mouth..a lot. I had a good childhood..had a lot of cousins. We'd always play, sing together and just had music in all of our lives. I have got some cousins that can sing. I will have a post especially on that subject, I'm sure. Here is a picture of some of my cousins: from left to right is Linda,Keith,Judy, and me with my mouth open and going, of course. We'd have jam sessions a lot. My uncle Harvey would play the guitar and we'd sing. I have a good picture of that, that I will have to round up.

   I have to say it was good practice and it got me ready for an audience. I LOVED IT. When I was 14, I sang for the first time on stage at the Arkansas Jamboree in Marianna,Ar. I was scared to death. I remember when I got on stage that I just stood like a tree and my hands were by my side pulling on my jeans. I sang Leo Sayer's "More than I can say". It was a challenge for the band since it wasn't the regular standards that they were used to, but everything worked out fine. I got through it and made it a habit to sing every weekend I loved it soo much. This was something I'd look forward to every week. I would get a list of songs ready and did tend to

     Going back a little younger even, my mom always made sure I was busy doing something. She got me started into theatre, when I was 9, and I enjoyed being in the Childrens workshop. I was working with other people with the same interest. We all got to have a dance class, an Art class, vocal group singing, and of course acting. I have to say I got to do a lot of things and feel less intimidated @ being on stage in front of an audience. 

     I played a blind student the first year and it was very interesting and informative. The second year, they had selected "Oliver". OHHH.. I wanted that part. Even though it was a boys role, I wanted to do it. It was one of my favorite movies anyway and I WANTED THAT PART. I knew I could do it. I got the script and learned the lines and when it came time to auditoin, I felt I had

      My mom was surprised at how determined I was to get be Oliver Twist. I had to auditon against 9 other boys. I got the part. Even Mrs. Pauline, just the best dance instructor that I know, said that I aced it. I am not bragging now. I am just telling others that if you want something bad enough, you can get it. 

      I went on to do any and every talent and some beauty pagaents, that my mom could enter me into. I sang so many places with so many different bands, in which, all were good.                                                                 

     To me, it was an awsome chance just to get to audition for Opryland. After making the audition, I was going to Nashville for a new singing job. I have to say that after I got there I saw just how much of a singing job it was. It was great. So many people gathered together in this one large dance room( you know the ones that have the mirrors lined down the wall. It looked cool and the people were so..how can I say it...professional. It felt great to be in the same room as they were

     I don't know what to say. I am just a layed back simple life home town girl...HMMM? Do I hear a song in that title..I do...I'll work on that. Admitting one more thing...being admired by someone is a good feeling. Knowing that the girl sitting in the front row of the show crying because I am singing "Unchained Melody", puts you into a high like state...I don't know how I could explain how I feel...GREAT I GUESS. I have to admit that making the money would have been a nice thing to have especially if I got it from getting to record. I would have loved to have put my songs that I wrote on a CD..I don't think I could have contained myself if I would have heard it on the radio...ooohhh..that would have been great.

Anyway, I had so many opportunities and just let them pass and I don't even know why, except I can say that all I ever loved to do was sing, to put my heart into a song and feel it..hmmm a good feeling. I remember one night in Helena. Oh..C.W.Gatlin was playing at the blues hall and he asked me up to sing. Actually we had worked the song out b4 I got up to sing and I sang "Rock me Baby" by Tina Turner. It was Summer and IT WAS HOT. I FELT EVERY NOTE AND EVERY WORD.

I have had many times like that..just @ everytime(especially singing with C...he can ROCK). We even worked..if u can call it that:) at the Rex Restaurant. So many nights we'd entertain the customers with our blues and jam. I can tell u this, that man (C) can sure play the GEEE TAR..He's playing with LIVE WIRE now and they are doing a great job..OH..also my cousin,ah..two cousins are playing with him(Alfred on Base and Clyde Watson-who can rock with the best of them). I heard them at the Tri-County fair this yr.(missed last yr.due 2 this stuff I am dealing with),and they sound great.
I wanted to get up and sing at the fair with them soooo bad, but not able or ready. My voice has been scratchy after the surgery, but I am thankful because the NS(Neurosurgen)that did my surgery(ACD&F spinal diskectomy)told me that he had two patients that had completely lost their vocal ability..NOOO I told him that I couldn't lose that. He even changed where the surgery was performed. Instead of doing it on the right side, they did it on the left.*(I have a special section that I am working on @ my surgery..you'll have to check it out when I add it..:)) Working on that..you'll have 2 hear @ what I have 2 say.

Back 2 music, I even got to do demo songs for Kent Blazey. He wrote "If tomorrow never comes" for Garth Brooks. It's a funny story how me and Kent met. I was singing for Mrs. Fitzhugh in Helena,Ar, in her big old two-story home. I LOVED it. Singing was all I ever wanted to do. Now, this was b4 I auditioned or worked in Opryland. Kent was just there at her Bed & Breakfast with friends and family. Of course, he was there at the same time the Blues Festival was going on.

It was nice, the ambionsce(if spelled correctly..u get the gist), was so delightful. Candlelit evenings, I would go and serenade the patrons that came in to enjoy a little distraction. I had a song list soooo long that I know it was over 300 and these were the songs I sang. I had a mixture of Barbara Striesand to Bryan Adams to Gerswin to who knows what...I sang everything...everything I wanted to. I even had some James Taylor, and Linda Rondstadt....It was great. I wish I could do it again.
Well, if you want to go back to 1988, I will. I was married and had been for 4 yrs(I got married right out of High School..I know STUPID..just two months into my 19th yr.of age). I graduated in May, turned 19 in August..and got married in October.

I had a chance to audition for Opryland, the theme park in Nashville, TN. and I made it. Now, my husband(1st), was fine with the idea of me auditioning, and he even said(at the time),he was all for it and if I made the audition we would move to Nashville...no prob. I really thought he meant it and would move. I really don't know what he meant half the time, now that I think back(at least now we get along civilly...some).

When I got the call that I had made it, he was not happy. He told me that he wasn't going. I didn't understand why. I thought things maybe could work out where he accepted my music. He never did.
I remember one time, I was singing at the "Old Farmers Market", over in Helena,AR. I had two guys come up to me and say that they enjoyed the show. He walked right up to them and said, "I'm Mr.May", that was when my name was May. It was strange for when he shook their hands, I saw this look on his face. He has these temple things he does with his muscles in his face. I looked down at them shaking hands and he was squezzing their hands. That man. He was so..I guess possessive, I don't know what he was thinking..jealousy? It doesn't matter now..that was in the past.

That is just one of many many things I delt with then. I have to say that it was not a pretty site to hear though...yeah, I could hear the bones cracking in their hands. Really it angered me because here I was singing to entertain and two people walk up to complement me(in my eyes I just saw someone that admired my singing, nothing more), but I guess he saw it as trouble or something...who knows, but they are getting punished 4 liking my singing/music... Not right.

I am glad we get along somewhat now(me & Jim-I try). It has been a long road to here and I used to say that I would go back, if I knew what I know now..NOT! My life is all I want it to be now..I have God in it and that is most important...IT IS.
HMM? That makes me think of something my dad always says.."I feel more like I do now, than I did a while ago"...Think @ that one a minute..LOL (cute hey)
My dad, is a character. I guess that is where I get it from and the gift of gab. Definately, the gift of GAB..and this is where I leave u 'til next time, but I am sure you'll find next post just as interesting..hope so.
I am just enjoying being able to express my feelings as truthful as it is, which sometimes is sad, but true...but all true.

Hey, I am going to let u think @ all of this and prepare 4 my next post of WHO knows what. I am sure you'll find all sorts of things. I am loving posting @ Nashville.(Definately a lot more PICS!!) I can say that those years were great and my life now is fuller than it ever was because of the experience,maybe.
I would love a comment. I know I am getting some hits on the site, but NO comments..hmm? What am I doing wrong or am I doing it right? Tell me..I'd love input. Thanx..Karen

Psssst...I am just going to keep adding photos of Opryland.."GOOD TIMES...GOOD TIMES"...:))



4 THOSE OF U WHO DIDN'T KNOW:
I am married to a wonderful man, GARY. we've been married 14 yrs. worth of happiness and love(THAT'S ANOTHER STORY). I have say that me and my first husband ,Jim, finally get along, a little now. Thank God..we have a son together, Shane, and need to get along with each other. It is so important 4 the well-being of our son.

Okay, back to the story 2 give u a semi-conclusion. Anyway, I did go to Nashville. He just stayed behind(my ex). I couldn't give up this chance AND IT WAS A CHANCE OF A LIFETIME. (Garth Brooks HAD tried 5 times and never made it there and look where he is now). So, NO I was going and one of the best dicisions I had made in my lfe so far....

That's just what mom's...and dads do!

BELIEVE IT OR NOT WE DOOO CARE..AND GUESS WHAT WE'VE ALREADY BEEN THERE.

      Yes, we women normally go through our days doing what needs to be done...that is if you can get them all done in a day..THIS is what my mom and grandma always said and I know it to be true: "A MAN MAY WORK FROM SUN TO SUN...BUT A WOMANS WORK IS NEVER DONE"...so true. It is all a part of GOD's plan though. Like I said He has a reason 4 everything.
     In what I am discussing or talking @ today is those teenagers...what we gonna do with them. I know it is hard to deal with the things in life..that is what we're here for to come to and talk to and ask @.
      I am sure glad I was raised in a healthy and caring environment. I had good parents...yes, and I was an only child, but non-the-less not too spoiled(well, maybe a little..:). I did learn the meaning of the word..NO and understood it. Although, I was such a kid then(didn't even have a clue at 18)...so yes, I made mistakes...we all did until we learned the difference, on our own. Sometimes it just has to be that way I guess. The good thing @ learning things the hard way is that you NEVER forget those life lessons. I just wished I would have listened more when I was young. I think I was too busy having fun being a kid, but that is what childhood is all @, but we must have some rules.
       My dad always says..and he really is a character,but a good one..."One of these days we are gonna wake up dead"..he really says all kinds of things( you just never know what is gonna come out...lol). He is a good decent Christian man. My mom is generous,caring as well, but not as outspoken as dad( sometimes, I think I take a lot from my dad--0hh). Thank you mom and dad..you done good (I think) and I really still am a kid "at heart" now..I think I always will be.."LORD WILLING".
        I was blessed to have parents that tried to help me in anyway that they could to see things clearer..understand. I am a parent now and I and my hubby will do the same 4 mine and ours. Now,what they get from me or his dad will carry, but what they learn mostly from God will impact their lives forever!!!
       I will lead off to say... "That is just what MOMS and DADS do"....