https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/long-days-journey-into-light/ News Resources Sat, 28 Mar 2009 07:11:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/long-days-journey-into-light/#comment-293 Sat, 28 Mar 2009 07:11:39 +0000 https://sharing.mayoclinic.org/?p=1281#comment-293 Thanks for telling your story, Melanie. My Mayo experience as a mother, daughter, sister and patient have made me a greatful Mayo beneficiary and a passionate Mayo employee, so I can give back for the wonderful care we have received.

]]> https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/long-days-journey-into-light/#comment-295 Sat, 28 Mar 2009 07:11:39 +0000 https://sharing.mayoclinic.org/?p=1281#comment-295 Thanks for telling your story, Melanie. My Mayo experience as a mother, daughter, sister and patient have made me a greatful Mayo beneficiary and a passionate Mayo employee, so I can give back for the wonderful care we have received.

]]> https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/long-days-journey-into-light/#comment-292 Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:42:39 +0000 https://sharing.mayoclinic.org/?p=1281#comment-292 I know exactly how you feel. My mother has had a long history with Mayo and St. mary’s Hospital in Rochester, MN. They’ve spent the last 22 years fixing a mixtake a local hosptial did but this is not related to her ongoing GI problems. Back in 2006 she fell one night and pinched a spinal chord and she went from standing 5’2″ with impeccable handwriting to looking like an elderly woman in sever late stage osteoprosis and not even being able to print her name in less than a weeks time. She had to use one hand to uncurl the other hand off her walker. We went in and her doc was very straigth forward, to some it would have come off as unfeeling but to us. He did the surgery in less than a week giving her the ususal percentage that she could end up completely paralzyed but we knew something had to be done and even though the next 24 weeks of thereapy including 12 weeks in a halo brace (the kind they screw into your temple) but her strength came back immediatly as did her handwriting. I thank that doctor everyday for what he did. It’s probably something he preforms with somewhat regularity but to me it was a miracle. One of many that my mother has witnessed and been a part of first hand at her time connected to Mayo and St. Mary’s Hospital. Thank YOu.

]]> https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/long-days-journey-into-light/#comment-294 Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:42:39 +0000 https://sharing.mayoclinic.org/?p=1281#comment-294 I know exactly how you feel. My mother has had a long history with Mayo and St. mary’s Hospital in Rochester, MN. They’ve spent the last 22 years fixing a mixtake a local hosptial did but this is not related to her ongoing GI problems. Back in 2006 she fell one night and pinched a spinal chord and she went from standing 5’2″ with impeccable handwriting to looking like an elderly woman in sever late stage osteoprosis and not even being able to print her name in less than a weeks time. She had to use one hand to uncurl the other hand off her walker. We went in and her doc was very straigth forward, to some it would have come off as unfeeling but to us. He did the surgery in less than a week giving her the ususal percentage that she could end up completely paralzyed but we knew something had to be done and even though the next 24 weeks of thereapy including 12 weeks in a halo brace (the kind they screw into your temple) but her strength came back immediatly as did her handwriting. I thank that doctor everyday for what he did. It’s probably something he preforms with somewhat regularity but to me it was a miracle. One of many that my mother has witnessed and been a part of first hand at her time connected to Mayo and St. Mary’s Hospital. Thank YOu.

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