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To sum up, my fiancee was paralyzed from the waist down via a Neurologic disorder that caused Transverse myelitis. She is the mother of our 18 month old twins and in total we have 5 children which I now have the lion's share in taking care of.

Thanks so much for helping out.

Amazon email: ethanharris@gmail.com






I know there are plenty of smart folk on these here boards, and I was wondering if anyone has any experience with this syndrome. My girlfriend has been afflicted, and is currently paralyzed from the waist down. Just fucking out of the blue. They are starting her on certain steroids and starting some type of plasma transfusion/replacement or some shit.

Just wondering if anyone has any life experience with this. I have read about all I can find on it, and it seems she should recover fully eventually. Some fucked up shit though.

Only time I have ever even heard of this nightmare was when I had to get my flu shot. Even then, it was
nurse: "Have you ever had Guillain-Barre Syndrome?"
me: umm, what?
nurse: "nope, you'd know what it was if you had it"
me: ok then.

Looks horrible though. Good luck.

Good luck with that. Never heard of this thing before, just read up on it and was horrified.

If I remember correctly from the one pt I saw with it, the plasma thing is basically like blood doping. I think they take out the RBCs from the plasma and put those back in by themselves or something like that. I'm just a Respiratory Therapy student so probably only about half right since not my area of study really. Our pt ended up on a vent (which is why I saw the person) but also ended up recovering fine. Was in the hospital for a long time though. Good luck with everything and make sure to give her lots of emotional support.

Wikipedia article for the lazy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillain%E2%80%93Barr%C3%A9_syndrome)

I hadn't heard of this either, and it doesn't sound at all nice. My condolences to your girl, I wish her a swift and complete recovery.

To be honest, the only thing I know is that I had a question about it on an exam in medical school.  I am very sorry that she is going through this and hope that you're able to find an expert in your area. 

Oh fuck, man.  I'm sorry to hear about that.  It usually isn't life threatening (Edit: if you call being on mechanical ventilation "not life threatening"), but it is going to throw a big monkey wrench into both of your lives for a while.  Sometimes the after effects can last for years.  It is likely due to an autimmune response against some foreign antigen-  probably a virus.  Tends to go with viral infections.  I hope she gets better quickly.

I've heard of it from House - and if House lists it as a possible diagnosis, you know it's likely fucked up. Other than that, I have no experience. Sorry about your girlfriend, man.

Co-worker's daughter had it a few years ago.  It didn't progress *too* far and she made a complete recovery, I believe she was down for like 3 months and it came on suddenly.  I don't recall her needing to be on a respirator or hospitalization, but then my coworker was tight-lipped about it all when it happened..  Last I heard she was doing very well for a typical teenage girl.  I had a similar episode when I was 12 that resulted in rapid onset paralysis from the waist down as well, the doctors suspected it but since it never progressed beyond that and went away after a week in the hospital on all kinds of drugs, they didn't diagnose it as that.  They believed it was a rare strain of polio, which resulted in a horrendous flu that afflicted my back and had me in pain for 5 days straight after the numbness went away.  I eventually had to learn to walk and write again as my coordination and balance was completely hosed afterwards and as a result I can write with my left hand and throw with it better than my right.

Good luck with this though, it's pretty rough having to deal with it.  The good news is that in all but severe cases she will make a full recovery after some time (which can vary depending on the body's response to it) which while it makes the disease scary, makes it easier to take when you know the chances of recovery are extremely good despite how much it sucks going through it.

My uncle had it, and it knocked him down for a good six months. :(

I think one of the senior producers in a TV newsroom I used to work in had Guillain-Barre. Or at least, before I knew him, he had had a spontaneous lower body paralysis that had put him in a wheelchair, returned to work, and everybody used to ask him about his progress.

I know the broadcaster/musician Lucky Oceans had it. He wrote about it here (http://www.abc.net.au/health/yourstories/stories/2009/03/09/2509436.htm).

I am sorry to hear about your bad luck.

It's not Guillain-Barre, been ruled out. Waiting on some tests to come back, and she is slowly regaining some function. Gonna be a long road no matter what it turns out to be. Now at the University of Michigan and we'll see if they can figure it out. Pretty damn tough as a father of five with 17 month old twins. Fuck it, I'm a rock.

LIKE A ROCK, I WAS STRONG AS I COULD BEEEEE

This is good news.  And yes, long road indeed.  But regaining function over a shorter period of time is the best you can ask for in such a terrible situation.

It's pretty wild, multiple hospitals and some pretty damn good Neurology teams haven't been able to figure it out. Could be something called NMO (scary as fuck too), but her total symptoms don't really ad up to it. My basic hopes are that it is

A. Non-reoccuring
B. Recoverable

It already seems to be recoverable, though it's gonna take some serious PT to walk again, I just know it.

Taking this another direction, it honestly made me believe less in god then I already had. Any god that would do this to a woman who doesn't drink, smoke, and actually is an active and great mom (hell, she is in Karate with all 3 big kids) is a motherfucker and can kiss my ass. Everyone says they are praying for her, and oh god is great and asking god for miracles. You know what? She'll beat this on her own, with a fuckload of work...and it won't be glory to god.


Inside, I am thankful this wasn't a car wreck or something like that we know would be permanent. Trying to stay positive.

Glad to hear she's doing better. Get family to help with the kids!

Indeed, family helped all weekend with them so i could be with her the whole time.

It's just fucked up, man. So much on my fuckin shoulders now, and for a long time.



MAN UP

It's probably due to mould in your walls, have you considered suing your landlord?

Where's Nerf when ya need him for legal advice!?!?

Best advice I could give is stay positive, weak as that might sound. Whatever she's got is either recoverable or it's not and if it is she's going to benefit most from someone encouraging her that she just needs to work at it. And remember if you need to bitch about stuff, do it in gen disc and save her the earache  :awesome_for_real:

5 kids and 17 month old twins? Maybe she decided mommy needed a vacation and bingo short term paralysis while dad has to deal with all the crap for awhile?  :grin:



In all seriousness hope everything works out for the best. This had to have been scary as hell.

Pretty sure that, given Slayerik's alleged prowess, those five kids are from 5 different mommies.  Including the twins.

Hang in there, dude.

And, he's not even in the same country anymore.

I kid, I kid.

Ok, I got a well needed laugh out of the last 3 posts. And now GBS is ruled out. They actually still haven't fully diagnosed the condition yet. Very similar to a nasty fucker of a syndrome:

Neuromyelitis Optica - http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/neuromyelitis_optica/neuromyelitis_optica.htm

but she has no vision problems.

Luckily, she has a strong spirit and will to beat this. She moved her toes for the first time today. They are taking an aggressive approach to knocking down the inflammation of her spinal cord. We can hope this is a variety that is a single attack, not the re-occuring type.

That is great news. I'll be stopping in to see her again tonight after work.

Fuck man. That's shit. I hope it works out for the best and that it's 100% recoverable. There's not much else I can say.

This is like an episode of House without the hotness.

Na man, my girlfriend is hot ;)

Pics or it didn't happen.  :awesome_for_real:

Seriously, though, I hope everything is ok.

They are now starting cyclophosphamide tomorrow.  This is a chemo-therapeutic agent.

There were some serious fuck-ups in the whole thing, from a couple of different health systems. The first ER we went to sent her home even with her not being able to walk. Said "she didn't have her primary care physician in their system." Refused to do an MRI. Had they done due diligence with her care, and not just tried to empty an ER room my GF may very well have not have been paralysed. Then at the 2nd system they were at, they did not take her seriously claiming it was a psychological thing. I even saw the note saying that the Dr. was almost certain it was not Neurologic. Were very slow getting an MRI together, put it off an extra day because they didn't have an anes guy available (she was in extreme pain and needed sedation). Everything I have been reading says TIME IS (spinal) CORD. After they saw the results of the MRI, the Neurologist actually came in and apologized saying 'she had everyone fooled'.

Might end up being some Nerf-esque drama in the form of a lawsuit or two.

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There's my girl with a kid that is actually NOT ours.

Baby stalker!

I hope she's still improving. Not trying to steal your thunder, but shit like that happens a lot. Two years ago I was sick for weeks and finally felt like I was on death's door and called 911. Paramedics came and basically said "Good job wasting our time, you've got the flu you pussy". My wife and I had appointments for our annual dental exams the next day and I went anyway since I love my teeth. My uncle the dentist asked me if I knew I had an abscess. It was a tooth that had had a root canal and a crown so I wasn’t feeling a thing pain-wise, but it had been going on for pretty much the whole year, dissolved a portion of my maxilla, and was dumping puss and blood god knows where inside of me. Two hours in a dental chair for some dental surgery and I was right as rain. Had it not been for the coincidence of that dental exam who knows what would have happened. I could have died from it.
I guess my point is that nobody knows their body better than the person in it. Most people can tell the difference between some minor bullshit ache/pain and when something is really going wrong. If you feel like something is going on, don’t let people brush you off. I know we’re conditioned to not be a pain in the ass, but in cases like these the only person looking out for you is you. Emergency services are the worst way to get that sort of thing sorted out, because they don’t really have the time, plus they have to deal with people pulling bullshit to get pain meds. Once again, some level of treatment between the ER and the two week wait for an appointment with your GP would be super awesome.
Once again, I hope everything works out.

She had spent the last month at Neurologists and Urologists and any other ologists that might help her with pain issues.

Thanks, though. She got to spent xmas with our twins and it was tough but really good in the end.

Any updates? Hoping for good news...

I appreciate ya asking Az...Things were looking well, she recovered a lot of stuff but BAM now she is in bad shape again. Latest MRI shows lesions in spinal cord, brain, brain stem.

It's fucking bleak. Back to steriods, and now going to try an immunoglobin transfer or some shit. They still don't have a real diagnosis. It's crazy. She is trying to stay strong but you work so hard just to get beat back...It's a horrible thing and would never wish it on anyone. She is getting pretty morbid at this point, and honestly how can you blame her? Got all her life insurance and pension stuff sorted. Been a sad couple days. The absolute last thing she needed.

Sorry to be so depressing guys. I'm trying to stay positive but FUCK.

Sorry for the poor turn of events, Slayerik. Here's my fingers crossed for you and yours.

The world really does need a real life House.

It's okay to vent and yell a bit.  Shit is serious.  Thanks for keeping us updated though.

Is it still only affecting her lower body, or has this relapse affected more?

My uncle who had previously been in perfect health, exercised regularly, ate well, suddenly had problems walking.  Then problems moving his head and arms.  Then problems talking and eating.  Now he's almost totally paralyzed and the only thing any doctors have been able to say is that while it's very much like Parkinson's, it's not typical Parkinson's.  They don't know how he got it, don't know what it's doing, and don't know how to treat it.  Our command of medical science is not as great as we like to think it is, sadly.  But at least in your girlfriend's case they've found something clearly out of the ordinary; that's hopefully enough of a lead to point them towards the means to fix it.

Now she is having sight issues and some issues swallowing, though it's gotten a bit better.

It seems to be a separate, new shitty attack. Her lower body is still paralyzed, Waist up has come back ok...with some limited movement down to her thighs.

Have they ruled out MS? I only ask because MRI lesions are normally associated with that, but they normally appear over the course of years.  Are these lesions that weren't present on the prior MRI's, and was it the first with contrast or something similar (ie: Is it plausible the lesions just weren't recognized before)?

There are a handful of encephalitic diseases I know of that can present the way you've related (mostly viruses) along with MS, which is probably why they're trying the immunoglobulin transfer treatment.  I'm not a doctor, I just have had cause to look into this kind of thing.

--Dave

I'm not sure it was ever truly ruled out, but it didn't seem like it at all from what the doctors have been telling me for a month.

The initial MRI showed extensive lesions, and swelling over 3-4 segments of the spinal cord (termed Longetidinally extensive transverse myelitis) but nothing really resembling MS (more brain focused I think). One iffy spot in the brain. Now it looks much worse, with brain stem and brain activity along with spinal cord.

EDIT: I hate the word lesion. It's a fuckin' nasty sounding word and way nastier when the mother of your children has them in her brain and spinal cord.

Jesus Christ, sorry it isn't good news.  Hang in there.

Fuck man.
I hope it recedes again. Shit, I don't know what else to say. Fuck.

Sorry to hear it, Cheddar. I'll toss some prayers your way.

Cheddarik

DUH. That's what I get for looking at goddamn avatars and not names. I don't know why your avatar always makes me think of Cheddar.

Well, an update for those interested. She is home, but still not walking. Life has gotten a bit harder, but a bit better as well. I am pretty burnt out taking care of baby twins, and now her, and try to work full time (with hour commute each way), and cook/clean/take babies everywhere. I believe I may be the busiest man in America right now (I even have to wake up with her to help her with cath-ing and stuff).

Family support has been ok, but in the end I feel like the world is on my shoulders. She is working hard and trying to regain strength in her legs (she has decent movement in them now). Everyday life stuff is a challenge. One thing I find both of us saying is "can't ANYTHING be easy?"

My occasional breaks I sneak in some Stone Soup Dungeon Crawl, and watch a bit of TV.

Anyway, back to work! (my easiest stretch of the day).


EDIT: Oh yeah, our Honda died at only 230k miles. New motor needed. WOOOO

Best wishes to both of you and a speedy and steady recovery for her.

Glad she is making progress and thanks for the update.  You rock, dude.  Hang in there.

Man, that is horrible. I thought I was busy helping the wife post partum and trying to work.

If it's any consolation, I feel like a slacker compared to what's on your shoulders. Awesome job and hang in there.

Rock on Slayerik!

Alright, I'm forming an exploratory committee here. Can we pool together and help Slay? Maybe a maid/cooking service for a month?

Best of luck Slay, that sounds like the motherload right there. I hope your wife recovers quickly and things take a turn for the better, try and stay as positive as you can.

If he would like the help, yeah, I'd consider it a worthy cause.

One thing I have learned from this experience is that if you need help you better ask for it! So yes, anything would be greatly appreciated!

Here is Angie with the babies in the hospital!

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It definitely sounds worthy enough.  Just have to be careful, Paypal can turn out to be dickbags about setting up donation/non-profit accounts if whatever arbitrary hoops they desire aren't jumped through.

Slayerik's the man.  I'd donate.

I'd chip in for a former ultrapolite socialite. :awesome_for_real:

Good plan muffinman - I'd easily toss in a few bucks.

Yea PayPal does seem like they need hoops jumped through, not sure if that is worth it just to have lower fees. 
Is PayPal the route to go for this? New thread for more exposure? I'm much more an idea man than an executor.

My general vote is anti PayPal, simply because they are jackasses, but whatever is easiest to setup.

I will toss in something, just come up with the place to send it.

http://www.gofundme.com/ ?

Silly techhies, over-thinking a problem.

Slayerik, who do you bank with and what other banks are in your region? Simple enough to set up a fund with any one of them by just talking to the manager.   Just like they do for kids with cancer, killed cops, etc. 

But yes, I imagine he'll have to pay taxes on it if it hits a certain level. After all, he's not a non-profit and this would be income. The Accountants can speak more on that.

Paypal has you jump through hoops to avoid the whole money-laundering thing that would be very abused if they let just anyone set-up tax-exempt accounts.

Just make an Amazon Wish List. It's a lot easier that way.

I'm for that. Do they work like a baby or wedding registry? That would make it easy for anyone to go buy something or contribute toward something.

Yup. He can put whatever items are available on Amazon.com on the list and we buy them and they get sent directly to him. If there's some expensive item that he wants to purchase through Amazon he can put gift cards on the list as well so that purchase can be broken up into smaller pieces.

You guys are awesome.

ethanharris@gmail.com

Got some food stuff and gift cards up if anyone would like to help out! Thanks again for the support!  :heart:

Make sure to pop me a PM or email if you do donate!

Then put something cheapish on the wishlist. Seriously, if they can't spare like $30 bucks plus shipping, then they have no business donating jack since they're in worse trouble than you are.

Sorry, I edited that out on you. Yeah, I have a wide range (10 dollar gift card up to 500  :drill: ) just in case :)

and updated thread title.

I think you need to create a registry (wedding or baby) in order to have stuff shipped to you. Wish lists don't have your shipping address tied to them.

That shouldn't be the case at all. Just need to make sure your address is associated with your wishlist. http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_rel_topic?ie=UTF8&nodeId=501088

I'm always amused at the "Buy new and used" tag on food items.  :oh_i_see:

Tho I'd rather send you cash because dude.. I can't in good conscience send you processed food.

RFI:  Diaper size.  Pic is size 4, link requires a choice.

Diaper size 4 , ejharris@umich.edu if you just want to send cash via paypal - list it as a service maybe?

Updated address in Wish list, thanks.

How can one just send you money?

I Tried Paypal.

Good call, though I think the Annie's stuff is pretty darn natural.


Not that I want to be responsible for dissuading you from sending cold hard cash!  :awesome_for_real:

I verified that's the right paypal email...weird.

Finally got a minute to log back on here and wow, you guys rock. I am truly touched by the response, thanks so much for the help. My life is crazy, but it's crazy cool right this minute.

Sorted...I don't know how these wish lists work, but I think you need to go add some more stuff to yours. 

Hope there will be enough there for you to have a little fun with it, too.

Wow, you guys really chewed up that list and spit it out. I figured out the card thing better, and you can pretty much pick an amount now and do it digitally. Added some bed sheets cause ours have seen better days due to some issues... And diapers and baby onesies, cause well with baby twins you can never have enough!

Yeah, just but tons of diapers on there.  I didn't get a chance to do it yesterday because I'm on a project deadline and was at the office until midnight.  I plan on buying you some but don't carry my credit cards these days so can't get to it until I'm home.

It may be, but I can't enter it in the paypal "Send money" area. It seems to want a "real" e-mail.

I am about to rain on this parade. But first, let me say I have no problem with what's happening here.

That said:

The next time one of you wants to do this shit (i.e. ask for donations, handouts, etc) - CONTACT ME FIRST. JESUS. One, while Slayerik may be some measure of trustworthy not everyone is. This is the internet and I find this shit abhorrent. I would have interest in setting up channels and such to do this, or being a custodian in it, because quite frankly, the only people I trust here are myself and my staff.

If this happens again, I'm going to lock the thread and contact the person to find out what the fuck before money starts getting thrown about. Other concerns are "why are people airing this private shit on the internet instead of dealing with it through family," etc. I want this shit to be on the up and up and this thread came out of the blue.

That's all, carry on. Slayerik, I hope everything turns out OK and understand that this was not a post personally directed at you. I'm just a fan of taking action once something becomes an issue, rather than prior and guessing.

I don't think he asked, we offered. That said, your warning is wise.

I know, and that's not how it will work in the future. When it comes to shit like this, there is no "We" there is only alpha and omega, which is me. But like I said, I'm letting this one run its course. If dumb shit happens, I wash my hands of it.

Yeah, I hear you Schild. I started the thread as a place for general questions about paralysis and Guillian Barre Syndrome (which it didn't end up being) and things took a pretty awful path for our family. I wouldn't have asked for help, but many people showed interest and even Trippy got the ball rolling with the Amazon suggestion.

Either way, I understand and respect your request. I hope I didn't come across as begging on your board man. I will say you all have truly helped our family out, Angie was shocked when I told her about it. She is a person that is like overly kind, and to me maybe this is karma trying to help her out a bit.

Anyway, it's an awesome community here. Thanks again everyone.

To be more specific, if it were JUST an Amazon Wishlist, I would have said nothing. Because that seems cool. But once money comes into the equation, shit gets hairy.

More poop disposal remedies on the way.

I've been telling schild to setup a Wish List the last two times he's been unemployed but he refuses -- all he wants are Magic cards :oh_i_see: :awesome_for_real:

As an aside, since we're talking about Amazon Wish Lists, Amazon Japan setup special Wish Lists for the schools and some other organizations in the areas hardest hit by the earthquake/tsunami. I just happen to have an Amazon Japan account >.> <.< and found it an ideal way to donate to those in need over there since I knew all of the money I was spending was going 100%* to helping directly and I was purchasing items they specifically wanted.

* Minus the credit card currency conversion fee

 :grin:

Maybe once I figure out how much my car will take to fix I'll meander back in here...

Assuming this country has internet access that day.  :oh_i_see:

So, please PM me if you bought us food as Angie accidently threw away the info from that. Thanks everyone, again, for the support. We were truly touched by the generosity shown here. Hopefully, next time I post in this thread I will be telling you how she is walking again!

Also, Annie's makes some good food!

EDIT: her recovery has been slow and steady. She is on some device in outpatient therapy called the Lokomat ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PufPyEHDFpQ example). She has been lifting her legs, and using her hip muscles, as well as regaining a little strength in her right leg. Left is her 'lazy leg'. She decided a week ago that she would break out of negativity and beat this thing and walk again. The first couple weeks were rough.

That's good to hear. Here's to a continued improvement.

Somewhat relevant:

http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Water-White-Robert-Samuels/dp/0984019413/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1331736602&sr=8-1

Angie had some blurry vision in her right eye, so we took her in. After a 3 day hospital admission and steroid treatment, there is a clinical diagnosis of Neuromyelitis Optica (or Devic's disease).

Seriously, don't even look it up. It's depressing as shit. It was basically something we were very relieved it was not when a certain test came back negative. I find myself now thinking "when will the next big attack hit her?" The scariest thing for me is that she will work so hard to walk again, and then BAM it'll all be gone. But I guess in life you can't stress yourself out over shit you can't control...so fuck it. Sorry to vent here, but for whatever reason it helps.

I wanted to post this here, as many people have reached out and also asked to be kept in the loop, and as much as I had hoped to bring good news it just keeps sucking. I had been given some good advice by a friend here in a PM, and I am going to try to follow it:


"Do the thing in front of you.  Then the next thing.  Once there's nothing left you can do that is useful, *then* you can fall apart."

Her vision seems to be recovering. There are some treatments that can shut down these relapses pretty well. I WILL stay positive. There is nothing in stone with any of these stupid fuckin' disorders.

That's no party to have, but if they've actually pinned down the culprit then at least now they can be focusing their efforts into treatments that will actually be effective.  Better to know it's something bad and have a working plan to deal with it than to have no clue what's going on and blunder around.  Keep the faith!

That's a great quote, use it like a mantra. I hope things improve drastically for you guys.

That blows, Slayerik, but at the same time, I have to think of your woman, and how SHE lucked out, in a way, in having  you as a partner when this hellstorm hit. I imagine how screwed she'd be if she had your average joe, who'd panic and flee from something this scary. Mad props to you and keep your chin up. One thing at a time and you'll get through.

Indeed.  Gingrich would have bailed the first time she sneezed twice in a row.

Good update!

Angie continues to rehab 3 days a week in PT. She stood for the first time under her own strength recently, and we hope to continue with positive milestones. She has not had a re-occurance of the disease, but she is on high dose steroids for a while longer. Her last Chemo treatment is Saturday. This is doing a number on her physically, with weight gain and hair loss, but hair grows back and weight can be lost. She suffers with muscle spasms a lot, especially at night. Her nerves are still quite shot, and is in a lot of pain.

I personally quit drinking. I was at the point of drinking every other night to drown my sorrows but life is too short to spend half of it hungover and tired, and I have too much on my plate for it. So that's that! Now my new addiction is Diablo 3...as well as the rest of my family.

She is still brings up the people on here, and was amazed by the response. Cheers

Congrats on the standing and the quitting drinking thing. I hope things continue to improve.

Cool, glad to hear things are going relatively smoothly.

Glad to hear it man. Just keep doing the thing in front of you.

Fucking awesome, dude!  \o/

YAY!  Glad to hear she's getting better.

I'm glad both of you are getting better.

 :yahoo:

Well, it's been a year now! And seriously, fuck you 2012.

Just wanted to post an update, Angie is doing better...no relapses and complications in the 9+ months. Some feeling back in her legs and feet...She is walking with the help of a walker. Still only maybe 100 feet at a time, but it's something! She has returned to work, part time, and is trying to get her license back so she can help me out (I drive everywhere). She will most likely need hand controls, for now, though.

Not sure why, but I was just reading the grief title thread and I was thankful for this place. Hope you all have a great 2013, and thanks to schild and the gang for my little internet home here. And thanks to all of you for helping me out...I meant to send some personalized thank yous but I basically don't have time or energy to wipe my ass most days. Just know it's appreciated.

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A Happy and safe New Years to you and yours.

Glad to hear she's doing better. Hope 2013 is kinder to the Slayerik fam.

I'm happy she's doing better. We avoided the Mayan apocalypse so 2013 can only go up, right?

 :heart:  I hope everything stays good.   :heart:

That's awesome, hopefully it keeps getting better

Good to hear man, hope everything keeps getting better.

Hearing she's continuing to improve is enough of a personalized thank you.  Keep kickin' ass!

That's really good to hear Slayerik, hope things continue to improve!

Good to hear, Slay. Congrats.

 :yahoo:

Here's hoping for a great 2013 for the Slayeriks.

Great news, Slay. And good on you for being a good man.