My wife Kari's Condition Substantially Improved!

[haygood at myway.com (Brian Haygood)]

Wow.  Oustanding results so far.  I'll pray they continue.  



On a more lighthearted note with all due respect to you and your family, What was it that they did to accomplish the "She no longer seems agitated" part?  <JK>



Brian 









 --- On Fri 05/19, John S. Lagnese < jlagnese@massed.net > wrote:

From: John S. Lagnese [mailto: jlagnese@massed.net]

To: camron@worldaccessnet.com, scirocco-l@scirocco.org

Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 14:04:48 -0400

Subject: Re: My wife Kari's Condition Substantially Improved!



Great news, hopefully the good news trend continues!!<br>----- Original Message ----- <br>From: "Camron D. Crouse" <camron@worldaccessnet.com><br>To: "Scirocco list" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org><br>Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 7:42 PM<br>Subject: OT: My wife Kari's Condition Substantially Improved!<br><br><br>Scirocco Content:  Driving Scirocco to and from the hospital!<br><br>Sorry for the large gap between updates, we've been in SF (and away from my <br>computer) during our ordeal.<br><br>Kari is doing very well in Inpatient Rehabilitation at Southwest Washington <br>Medical Center.  She's<br>eating, drinking, talking, and best of all thinking clearly.  She no longer <br>seems agitated and seems<br>to have moved through a phase of serious insomnia, and is now sleeping quite <br>well.  After nearly 4<br>weeks of hospitalization, we are trying hard to get her strength back up <br>through intensive physical,<br>occupational, and speech therapies. She still cannot quite stand on 
her own, <br>but her goal is to be<br>walking by the time of discharge, expected to be around Memorial Day.<br><br>Thank you everyone for all of your support, prayers, and thoughts of <br>healing!  Our Kari is on the mend!<br><br>Sincerely,<br><br>Camron Crouse (Husband) and everyone in the Crouse and Norick Families<br><br><br><br>*****************<br>A recap of the last few weeks:<br><br>April 29, 2006<br><br> > Friends and family,<br> ><br> > Kari was flown down to the University of California San Francisco <br>Thursday night.  She has<br> > already begun to show improvements such as the ability to speak softly <br>and coherently, increased<br> > physical strength, and she has started to open her eyes more frequently. <br>The doctors have<br> > scheduled an MRI for today, and further treatment/assessment will follow. <br>I will do my best to<br> > send updates.<br> ><br> > We are very lucky to have Kari in the hands of the doctors at UCSF, and <br>we are so thankful to 
the<br> > medical staff at SWMC for doing everything in their power to make these <br>special arrangements with<br> > UCSF.<br> ><br> > UCSF is notorius for their expertise in neurology as well as cancer <br>treatment.  I have included<br> > the ranking information below and the URL so that you can access the site <br>with additional<br> > information about this medical center.<br> ><br> > UCSF Medical Center<br> ><br> > In 2005, US News and World Report named the UCSF Medical Center the <br>10th-best hospital in the<br> > nation, making it the highest- ranked medical center in Northern <br>California.<br> ><br> > In the magazine's "America's Best Hospitals" survey, the UCSF Medical <br>Center ranked best in<br> > Northern California ? as well as among the best in the nation ? in the <br>following specialties:<br> > neurology/neurosurgery; hormonal disorders such as diabetes; respiratory <br>disorders; digestive<br> > disorders; pediatrics; gynecology; ophthalmology; 
rheumatology; urology; <br>eye treatments; kidney<br> > disease; cancer; and ear, nose and throat treatment.<br> ><br> > URL:  http://www.ucsf.edu/about_ucsf/rankings.html<br> ><br> > Please continue with the positive thoughts and prayers!<br> ><br> > Love,<br> ><br> > The Norick family and the Crouse family<br><br>~~~~~~~~~~~<br>May 6, 2006<br><br> > Kari gets a little bit better every day. The doctors say that she will <br>likely be able to return<br> > to<br><br>WA this upcoming week. She will still need to be in the hospital, but will <br>at least be close to home<br>as she makes her recovery. Speech therapy, physical therapy and occupational <br>therapy are working<br>with her now.<br><br> ><br> > Thank you for the positive thoughts and prayers! Please keep them up for <br>Kari!<br> ><br> > The Norick family and the Crouse family<br><br>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>May 10, 2006<br><br> > Kari is being flown back home to WA today. She will be in rehab <br>(physical, speech and<br> 
> occupational<br><br>therapy) at SWMC upon her return. She is still showing improvements. The <br>doctors at UCSF have been<br>very honest about the fact that they do not know for certain why this <br>happened to Kari. The internal<br>medicine doctors speculate that it may be from the chemotherapy. Kari has <br>her second course of<br>chemotherapy coming up, so we sincerely hope that they are wrong! The <br>neurology team speculates that<br>Kari has suffered unnoticed seizures that caused the inflammation that <br>showed up on her MRIs and<br>thus resulted in her condition.<br><br> ><br> > Thank you for your continued thoughts and prayers!<br> ><br> > The Norick and Crouse families<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Scirocco-l mailing list<br>Scirocco-l@scirocco.org<br>http://neubayern.net/mailman/listinfo/scirocco-l<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Scirocco-l mailing 
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