Month: July 2024

On Sept 18, 2023 I woke up in the Critical Decision Unit at Cox South hospital and was paralyzed from the shoulders down. I couldn’t move a finger. My diagnosis is Idiopathic Acute Transverse Myelitis. (John Hopkins says there are 1,400 cases of TM annually in the US.) See Part 1 (A thru L) HERE…

…especially when the laxative doesn’t seem to do much. In Part 1 of “Thru the alphabet…” I promised that bowel challenges would get their own blog piece given that “dysfunctional anal sphincter activities” are characteristic of Transverse Myelitis. {Warning: there is a long list of synonyms for bowel movements. This piece will include many of…