I wish that I had had the presence of mind to take more videos. I want to share what I do have with you because sometimes it helps to have a visual. For me, looking back on these video clips, inspire me to keep moving forward. There are days when I feel that my progress is becoming stagnant and I have to remind myself of how far I have come. I have to remind myself that every teenie-weenie bit of improvement is a huge step in my recovery. These video clips also allow me to laugh at myself. For heaven sake, I would never have been seen in public looking the way I do in some of these clips but here I am posting them for the world to see. Good lawd! I have no shame anymore if it means that someone else can gain from these postings. I say to anyone else who is being challenged in their life…… KEEP IT MOVING!
TO VIEW VIDEOS, PLEASE CLICK ON THE LINK TO THE LEFT CALLED VIDEO CLIPS OF PROGRESS UNDER BLOGROLL
My experience is eerily similar to yours.
I was at a pool party in Palm Springs this past Labor Day weekend. When I got home I found my toes were numb and when I went to the bathroom had numbness in my groin area and genitals .
Next morning I found that my feet and ankles were covered with bites. Meantime my foot and ankles had gone numb and I had no feeling from the waist down.
When I went to my doctor he dismissed the bug bites saying since they were not infected they were not the cause and I never mentioned it to the neurologist that I seen since then.
Since then I’ve been diagnosed with transverse myletiis confirmed by an MRI and treated with steroids. Two months later I am 90% recovered and not endure the ordeal you did! But still a very frightening experience
My question to you is do you feel that what happened to you was caused by a brown recluse spider bite?
Other accounts I’ve read about people getting the brown recluse spider bite are very very similar to what I experienced.
Hello Derek,
Thank you for commenting on my blog 🙂
I am so happy that you are at a 90% recovery. I’m still working my way towards that and it has been 7 years! You know, at this stage of the game, I think that anything is possible. My diagnosis was “Ideopathic” Transverse Myelitis. A fancy way to say that they haven’t a clue as to why or how it happened.
If you are ever in Palm Springs again, let me know…… lets do lunch! 🙂
My experience is eerily similar to yours.
I was at a pool party in Palm Springs this past Labor Day weekend. When I got home I found my toes were numb and when I went to the bathroom had numbness in my groin area and genitals .
Next morning I found that my feet and ankles were covered with bites. Meantime my foot and ankles had gone numb and I had no feeling from the waist down.
When I went to my doctor he dismissed the bug bites saying since they were not infected they were not the cause and I never mentioned it to the neurologist that I seen since then.
Since then I’ve been diagnosed with transverse myletiis confirmed by an MRI and treated with steroids. Two months later I am 90% recovered and not endure the ordeal you did! But still a very frightening experience
My question to you is do you feel that what happened to you was caused by a brown recluse spider bite?
Other accounts I’ve read about people getting the brown recluse spider bite are very very similar to what I experienced.