Joaquin Phoenix Scar - People

Peace officer's wife, mother of 2, middle school teacher on leave; Chiari Malformation, vascular & arthrochalasis Ehlers-Danlos, Syringobulbia, unsucessfully treated Tethered Cord. Primary damage due to EDS & 9 months of meningitis that has caused my brain to be taken over by progressive scarring; multiple grand mal seizures a day.

Somewhere around November 18th or 19th of 2007, I started feeling what I thought were Carpal Tunnel symptoms in my right hand. The symptoms included: tingling of my fingers, numbness, and I was having trouble typing. I went out and bought wrist guards, and things designed to help CT patients. The symptoms continued for about two weeks and I promised I?d visit the doctor after Thanksgiving. ...

Nily Naiman was born in Israel in December of 1953. She was the elder of two sisters in a hard working family that had arrived there after the defeat of the Third Reich. Nily grew up in a time of constant war and political and cultural upheaval in a narrow-minded society of Holocaust survivors and new Jewish immigrants who had come from all over the world. She struggled throughout her chil...

Diagnosed with bladder cancer June 2006. Was supposed to be quick and easy TURBT. Had to redo 6 weeks later. Had blocked kidney from scar tissue. Took 2 attempts to put in a stent and then once that was removed another tumor found in my ovary. Result...total hysterectomy which led to a major DVT. Couldn't walk w/o crutches for 4 months but just as I was healing from that, I saw more blood in th...