Gia Olejniczak:  

Life Hi all!!! Just had to let you know, I'm still alive and kicking!!! Thank You GOD and my neurosurgeon Anthony Virella!!! And all my "angels", mortal and immortal. I'll try to make it short, something was wrong with me, it started about 2 1/2 months ago, I started not being able to walk right, I was dragging my right leg. I thought I might have had a stroke. Saw a docter, after a cursory exam, he said maybe MS, maybe a stroke. Need an MRI, go home . Eventually I wasn't able to use the right side of my body at all . My hand was a closed fist that I had to pry open. I couldn't hold onto anything, write, feed myself, dress myself, shave my underarms, couldn't do zip!!! I'm right handed. Then I started falling down, I'd be standing up facing one direction, then next thing I know I'm 2 feet away flat on my face imbedded in a rose bush and cactus on the opposite side of the porch and I couldn't even help Rus lift me out. DEAD weight. I called it Spinning Out. I wasn't passing out, there was no warning dizziness etc, and except for the huge thorns ripping me up when Rus lifted me out i wasn't in pain and I had feeling in my right arm, hand, leg and foot, no numbness. Just useless. I "tripped" on a throwrug in the bedroom and hit 3 separate "bumpers" then smashed into the door with my face and head breaking my favorite glasses. the bathroom that has the hard floor not linoleum or carpet but ceramic tile I fell and smashed up this small antique table. The morning of the 9th I went out the front door, took 5 steps and fell again, this time hitting my head into this very heavy cast iron cream separator. Rus to the rescue!!! He had a job to go do that a.m. so after he threatens me once again with "duct taping my ass into a chair" so at least he wouldn't worry something will happen to me while he's gone, I promise not to do anything except sit still now that I'm starting to get scared too. After he left, I called my girlfriend and former neighbor Stacie ...Expand for more