Click here and go to slide number 8 if you want to see a cool ultrasound picture of the blood clot in my heart and the PowerPoint Presentation for Grand Rounds Ultrasound video of the blood clot in my heart! It’s difficult to comprehend that two full years have elapsed since my brain was taken out [...]
We just returned (Thursday afternoon September 16th, 2010) from our first trip to Mayo in nearly a year and all is well!
The largest health insurance company in Iowa, Wellmark Blue Cross/Blue Shield, recently announced that health insurance premiums would be rising an average of 18% for Iowans. Some more and some less. Pity the individuals who happen to be in the same pool as I. From the last two months of 2008 through 2009 I tapped our insurance company for [...]
On November 25th, 2009 this was number nine on the list of things things that I said I was thankful for: “9. Incremental daily improvements both neurologically and physiologically…Even after working out for six hours a week for the past 5 months with weights, elastic bands, cardio, jumping exercises, etc. I am still unable to do [...]
Here are the pics that you can enlarge if you wish by clicking on the image you would like to see in greater detail. I said this could be done with my last posting and it couldn’t. Enjoy! (By the way if you want to read the summary of this entire saga then just click [...]
If you want to understand what the Evans family has been through in the past year (Oct. 2008-Feb. 2010) without reading 200 or so postings, this is the posting to read! I have summarized the events here in a single posting…sort of a Cliff’s Notes version of our ordeal with pictures for those of you who [...]
Wow! It’s very hard to believe that it was just one year ago (October 23rd, 2008) that this most interesting of years began for our family. I can scarcely comprehend that 365 days have elapsed since we began this journey with a seizure that revealed a peach sized AVM (mass of intertwined veins and arteries) in my [...]
Click here to see a very cool (10 minute) video of how the brain has an uncanny ability to rewire itself…even with half missing!
I had another seizure Saturday night (Oct. 10th, 2009) and this one nearly scared me to death. I have wanted to set some things straight about our situation. This is a good opportunity to do just that. Our church had a Fall Festival planned and we were supposed to go out to a country home for hay [...]
I don’t really understand codependency but I think this word most accurately encapsulates my feelings toward the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota…and St. Marys Hospital. I know I need(ed) them and even though they may not admit it publicly I think they also need(ed) me…if only to glory in the miracle of a life that almost ended nearly seven [...]
