More Symptoms / Tons of Support!
My Story, Support October 9th, 2008
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You guys are great!! I can’t tell you how touched we are with your overwhelming support. I have received so many emails from friends, blog readers, other brain tumor survivors and people who are just believers and want to let me and my family know that they have faith and hope in our future and this surgery. How amazing people are.
I have a group of friends from my childhood, guys that I have literally known since I was 3-4 years old and we have stayed in touch over the years. All of them are behind me. People in the Church. A friend of mine, Jake Larson, who is the Senior Pastor at Arcade Church here in Sacramento – wrote such a nice piece on their site about my trial and asked the church to pray about this. We have friends that are offering up meals, assistance – it is amazing and we are truly grateful to everyone. Just a prayer is great, really.
As of now, I’m done with work. Yesterday in my office I had a very intense focal seizure. My left leg was involved and it got really out of hand. A co-worker, who happens to be a great friend of mine for many years was in the office and I called him in. I took a few Ativan and did some deep breathing and after 10 or so minutes I got myself out but I was oh so close to dialing 911. I could not have walked out of that place myself. I was close to the seizure I had after my 2007 surgery.
So, the impact? I am weak in my left leg – have a bit of a limp is all. Well, we’ll take care of that on Wednesday! One way or the other. If it’s all worse, then I’ll rehab it back.
So, I’m just going to hang at home, spend some time with some friends having coffee, lunch. My family is in town this weekend and I’ll basically just rest up for the surgery.
Thank you again for all of your support. It all means more than you know…
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My son had an intense focal seizure involving his whole left side last while celebrating his birthday at a restaurant with his friends last Valentine day. Of course the restaurant was full of people and after an hour had passed, he limbs were still flinging around. He had his friends call me (I am an RN) instead of dialing 911. After I got to the restaurant and saw the seizure was still going, I called 911. As we were leaving, my son, who has a good attitude and trys to keep everyone around him calm, yelled out to the everyone “Don’t eat the pie”! Stay calm Mark and don’t eat the pie!. We are praying for you.