Well, it's been about three weeks since my last post - sorry BWT-blog!
I listened to a mp3 pod-cast today, and I was 'blown-away' by a 2011 interview between our local-ABC radio announcer, and a TM sufferer. But not just another one, this man is a mid-60's 'Professor of Psychology' at our local Children's Hospital. I was taken a-back by the situation surrounding his 'attack', how it happened so quickly.. it goes like this;
...While he was sitting at a desk writing a paper for his PhD-students, a 'sharp-pain' in his side which persisted for a few minutes, then travelled down his leg, so he tried to get up but his leg gave out and he fell to the floor. He has a medical background - so got thinking and self-diagnosed that he had a 'Aortic-Aneurysm'.
And he started calling out to his wife, to take him to the doctor, or the hospital. When he got to hospital and was being seen by the emergency-ward staff doctor, he noticed how the medico's were a little bemused by his symptoms; acute pain with numbness down his legs.
Eventually, paralysis from the lower-chest down to his toes... to cut a long story short; Soon a more 'experienced' doctor came to see him and almost immediately diagnosed; Acute-TM!!! Unbelievably it was not showing up on any of his charts, at all. Not even in the CT-scans; the MRI-scans; the X-rays - nothing!!!
I listened to a mp3 pod-cast today, and I was 'blown-away' by a 2011 interview between our local-ABC radio announcer, and a TM sufferer. But not just another one, this man is a mid-60's 'Professor of Psychology' at our local Children's Hospital. I was taken a-back by the situation surrounding his 'attack', how it happened so quickly.. it goes like this;
...While he was sitting at a desk writing a paper for his PhD-students, a 'sharp-pain' in his side which persisted for a few minutes, then travelled down his leg, so he tried to get up but his leg gave out and he fell to the floor. He has a medical background - so got thinking and self-diagnosed that he had a 'Aortic-Aneurysm'.
And he started calling out to his wife, to take him to the doctor, or the hospital. When he got to hospital and was being seen by the emergency-ward staff doctor, he noticed how the medico's were a little bemused by his symptoms; acute pain with numbness down his legs.
Eventually, paralysis from the lower-chest down to his toes... to cut a long story short; Soon a more 'experienced' doctor came to see him and almost immediately diagnosed; Acute-TM!!! Unbelievably it was not showing up on any of his charts, at all. Not even in the CT-scans; the MRI-scans; the X-rays - nothing!!!
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