Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!spool.mu.edu!olivea!oliveb!bunker!hcap!hnews!261!1000!Alan.Hess From: Alan.Hess@f1000.n261.z1.fidonet.org (Alan Hess) Newsgroups: misc.handicap Subject: What kind of Message-ID: <16044@handicap.news> Date: 14 Jun 91 04:10:03 GMT Sender: news@bunker.isc-br.com Reply-To: Alan.Hess@f1000.n261.z1.fidonet.org Organization: FidoNet node 1:261/1000 - Nerve Center, Pikesville MD Lines: 29 Approved: wtm@bunker.hcap.fidonet.org Index Number: 16044 [This is from the Chronic Pain Conference] In a message of Ron Shaw (1:374/7@fidonet) writes to Alan Hess: RS> What kind of injury may I ask? You problem seems so close to RS> mine. I had a spinal cord injury (high C-5) June 11, 1981. Pains started about a month later, and have continually gotten more intense since. RS> And what period of time was the spinal stimulator effective (if RS> any)? Not at all. RS> I have tried many things and many doctors to no avail. I still RS> can not sleep at night due to the pain or spasms. Am at my wits RS> end trying to find some comfort & at least have a similance of a RS> life. This Fido area helps, even if it is only to assure me that RS> I am not the only one suffering thru all this stuff. I know the feeling. I'd love to inflict these pains on the damn quacks - that would get their attention real fast! *adh* -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!261!1000!Alan.Hess Internet: Alan.Hess@f1000.n261.z1.fidonet.org