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<blockquote data-quote="ajblakejr" data-source="post: 590762" data-attributes="member: 18807"><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">mac</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">This post hit home. Thank you for sharing.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><em>It sounds as if resilience is a family trait passed from generation to generation. What is that special quality or inner resource that so many people faced with life alerting diagnoses (dx's) that enables them to flourish in spite of the dx.</em></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">The inspiring words of Helen Keller:</span></p><p> </p><p><em><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: blue">Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.</span></span></span></em></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="color: black">Myself, I wanted and waited for magic to occur in the brain of the Senator. I had prayed that the vast resources of money and medical minds available to him would push the pioneers ahead in researching this vast undiscovered land called the brain.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="color: black">I soon came to the understanding that his brain was not the right frontier for these pioneers to come upon new treatments due to the advanced years and the damage the owner of the body thrust upon the brain.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="color: black">The brain. Damn machine with electrical connections that rule the body with an iron fist. We are just starting to understand it. Science is showing that these electrical paths can be diverted like traffic on the interstate with repeating and training. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="color: black">Bloodless surgery with gamma and cyber knifes to remove unwelcome masses invading the neighborhood. Pharmaceuticals developed to hopefully reduce the demylienation of neurological pathways. So many things can go wrong inside the brain and not many cures and not many answers.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="color: black">And a simple fall can cause a TBI (traumatic brain injury) to the unsuspecting and take you out of this world.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="color: #000000">So in this man, Kennedy, I had hope. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="color: #000000">I had hoped that he could make a difference in the treatment of things that go bad in the brain.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="color: #000000">So many things...Tumors, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Multiple Sclerosis, <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)... the list goes on.</span></span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="color: #000000">And I fear, with a heavy heart and tears in my eyes, that <em><strong>his </strong></em>vision of healthcare in the United States will stall the advancement of the pioneer spirit inside the brain...</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="color: #000000">Stalling the use of the expensive cyber and gamma knife. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="color: #000000">Questioning the expense of MS treatments like Tysarbi, which is now made between patient and doctor with an uncertain outcome. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="color: #000000">The BRAIN. Damn it. </span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ajblakejr, post: 590762, member: 18807"] [FONT=Georgia]mac[/FONT] [FONT=Georgia]This post hit home. Thank you for sharing.[/FONT] [FONT=Georgia][SIZE=3][I]It sounds as if resilience is a family trait passed from generation to generation. What is that special quality or inner resource that so many people faced with life alerting diagnoses (dx's) that enables them to flourish in spite of the dx.[/I][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Georgia]The inspiring words of Helen Keller:[/FONT] [I][FONT=Georgia][SIZE=3][COLOR=blue]Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/I] [FONT=Georgia][COLOR=black]Myself, I wanted and waited for magic to occur in the brain of the Senator. I had prayed that the vast resources of money and medical minds available to him would push the pioneers ahead in researching this vast undiscovered land called the brain.[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Georgia][COLOR=black]I soon came to the understanding that his brain was not the right frontier for these pioneers to come upon new treatments due to the advanced years and the damage the owner of the body thrust upon the brain.[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Georgia][COLOR=black]The brain. Damn machine with electrical connections that rule the body with an iron fist. We are just starting to understand it. Science is showing that these electrical paths can be diverted like traffic on the interstate with repeating and training. [/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Georgia][COLOR=black]Bloodless surgery with gamma and cyber knifes to remove unwelcome masses invading the neighborhood. Pharmaceuticals developed to hopefully reduce the demylienation of neurological pathways. So many things can go wrong inside the brain and not many cures and not many answers.[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Georgia][COLOR=black]And a simple fall can cause a TBI (traumatic brain injury) to the unsuspecting and take you out of this world.[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Georgia][COLOR=#000000]So in this man, Kennedy, I had hope. [/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Georgia][COLOR=#000000]I had hoped that he could make a difference in the treatment of things that go bad in the brain.[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Georgia][COLOR=#000000]So many things...Tumors, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Multiple Sclerosis, [FONT=Arial][FONT=Georgia]Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)... the list goes on.[/FONT][/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Georgia][COLOR=#000000]And I fear, with a heavy heart and tears in my eyes, that [I][B]his [/B][/I]vision of healthcare in the United States will stall the advancement of the pioneer spirit inside the brain...[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Georgia][COLOR=#000000]Stalling the use of the expensive cyber and gamma knife. [/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Georgia][COLOR=#000000]Questioning the expense of MS treatments like Tysarbi, which is now made between patient and doctor with an uncertain outcome. [/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Georgia][COLOR=#000000]The BRAIN. Damn it. [/COLOR][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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