My wife Kari's Condition Substantially Improved!

[jlagnese at massed.net (John S. Lagnese)]

Great news, hopefully the good news trend continues!!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Camron D. Crouse" <camron@worldaccessnet.com>
To: "Scirocco list" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 7:42 PM
Subject: OT: My wife Kari's Condition Substantially Improved!


Scirocco Content:  Driving Scirocco to and from the hospital!

Sorry for the large gap between updates, we've been in SF (and away from my 
computer) during our ordeal.

Kari is doing very well in Inpatient Rehabilitation at Southwest Washington 
Medical Center.  She's
eating, drinking, talking, and best of all thinking clearly.  She no longer 
seems agitated and seems
to have moved through a phase of serious insomnia, and is now sleeping quite 
well.  After nearly 4
weeks of hospitalization, we are trying hard to get her strength back up 
through intensive physical,
occupational, and speech therapies. She still cannot quite stand on her own, 
but her goal is to be
walking by the time of discharge, expected to be around Memorial Day.

Thank you everyone for all of your support, prayers, and thoughts of 
healing!  Our Kari is on the mend!

Sincerely,

Camron Crouse (Husband) and everyone in the Crouse and Norick Families



*****************
A recap of the last few weeks:

April 29, 2006

 > Friends and family,
 >
 > Kari was flown down to the University of California San Francisco 
Thursday night.  She has
 > already begun to show improvements such as the ability to speak softly 
and coherently, increased
 > physical strength, and she has started to open her eyes more frequently. 
The doctors have
 > scheduled an MRI for today, and further treatment/assessment will follow. 
I will do my best to
 > send updates.
 >
 > We are very lucky to have Kari in the hands of the doctors at UCSF, and 
we are so thankful to the
 > medical staff at SWMC for doing everything in their power to make these 
special arrangements with
 > UCSF.
 >
 > UCSF is notorius for their expertise in neurology as well as cancer 
treatment.  I have included
 > the ranking information below and the URL so that you can access the site 
with additional
 > information about this medical center.
 >
 > UCSF Medical Center
 >
 > In 2005, US News and World Report named the UCSF Medical Center the 
10th-best hospital in the
 > nation, making it the highest- ranked medical center in Northern 
California.
 >
 > In the magazine's "America's Best Hospitals" survey, the UCSF Medical 
Center ranked best in
 > Northern California ? as well as among the best in the nation ? in the 
following specialties:
 > neurology/neurosurgery; hormonal disorders such as diabetes; respiratory 
disorders; digestive
 > disorders; pediatrics; gynecology; ophthalmology; rheumatology; urology; 
eye treatments; kidney
 > disease; cancer; and ear, nose and throat treatment.
 >
 > URL:  http://www.ucsf.edu/about_ucsf/rankings.html
 >
 > Please continue with the positive thoughts and prayers!
 >
 > Love,
 >
 > The Norick family and the Crouse family

~~~~~~~~~~~
May 6, 2006

 > Kari gets a little bit better every day. The doctors say that she will 
likely be able to return
 > to

WA this upcoming week. She will still need to be in the hospital, but will 
at least be close to home
as she makes her recovery. Speech therapy, physical therapy and occupational 
therapy are working
with her now.

 >
 > Thank you for the positive thoughts and prayers! Please keep them up for 
Kari!
 >
 > The Norick family and the Crouse family

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
May 10, 2006

 > Kari is being flown back home to WA today. She will be in rehab 
(physical, speech and
 > occupational

therapy) at SWMC upon her return. She is still showing improvements. The 
doctors at UCSF have been
very honest about the fact that they do not know for certain why this 
happened to Kari. The internal
medicine doctors speculate that it may be from the chemotherapy. Kari has 
her second course of
chemotherapy coming up, so we sincerely hope that they are wrong! The 
neurology team speculates that
Kari has suffered unnoticed seizures that caused the inflammation that 
showed up on her MRIs and
thus resulted in her condition.

 >
 > Thank you for your continued thoughts and prayers!
 >
 > The Norick and Crouse families






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