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The beginning of the end


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My story begins like this.... 2 years ago,in July of 2003.The company my husband works for relocated us from a suburb outside of Baltimore, Maryland to Southlake, Texas a suburb outside of Dallas. My husband and I were born and raised in the Baltimore area.All of our friends and family were there. Our daughters Emily and Samantha were ages 14& 11yrs. respectively. It was a difficult adjustment for the girls. I was not working so that I could be available to them at all times. Picking the girls up after school was my time to chat with them and hear about their daysI really enjoyed the time, it kept us close.Then in J anuary of this year I became restless and the 2 girls had become expensive shoppers,so we decided I should get a part-timejobto keep me out of trouble lol_2.gif I hadmade some great friends since moving here and one of them helped me find a job.I started on January5,2005and I loved it cloud9.gif I was a personal assistant to a real estate broker/agent that owned her own company. Then on 2/23/05I had a headache No big deal. I had them all the time, but thiswas like one of my migraines.I picked fhe girls up from school went home, took some Excedrine migraineand went about my business on the computer. At some point I started to feel really bad and I went to my bedroom to lie down .I felt really weird like I had taken some kind of drugsMy husband called and I told him I had a headache and wasn't feeling well and he says,but I don't remember, that I dropped the phone. I asked my daughter Emily to call my next door neighbor and bestfriend, Sharon. She came right overand after seeing me lying in bed and trying to talk to me,She called 911. I remember her talking to them and her rubbing my foot . They told her to ask me to recite the aphabet and I must have sounded weird because I remember Sharon getting upset. I made her promise not to leave me and she says, she asked me to do the same. That's all I really remember until sometime in late March/early April.Apparently I stopped breathing in the ambulance , after that, they had taken me to a hospital nearby and they said they couldn't help me .They told my husband they didn't think Iwould make it through the night. My husband prepared the girls for the worst. Then I was rushed to another hospital in Dallas where they took a CT scan and realized I had a ruptured AVM they did an emergency craniotomy to relieve the pressure on my brain. They fully intended to remove the AVMwithin the next couple of days,but I managed to get infections and pneumonia while I lay unconscious in ICUfor the next three weeks.

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Hi Ruthie,

 

You've come a long way in such a short time, to be able to use the computer. Welcome to your blog community. It's therapeutic to write and post....looking forward to seeing more of you.

 

Jean

 

 

 

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Hi Ruthie..

I'll second Jean's emotion smile.gif ..I can apprecciate the cultural shock you must've experienced moving(being)from Maryland and going to Texas. I'm an Okie by birth so I know some of them longhorns and aggies....strange folks. smile.gif Although in my youth, I always enjoyed road tripping to big D and partying down on Commerce and of course going to the Cotton bowl for concerts and football. biggrin2.gif..like a lot of other places Texas and Okahoma lives for Footbal, all kinds.

 

Cheers

 

Tom

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Hey Ruth

 

I've lived in the east, midwest and west and IMHO it seems the further west you go the more friendlier people get .. however I'm biased..my first wife was from New Yark. biggrin2.gif I don't want to generalize too much .. we have east coast folks on board smile.gif I do agree though ..as much as I tease about Texans, they are very friendly down there..

 

Tom

 

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ruthie

 

you've appeared to have come a long way in a very short period of time. that's so awesome! i'm glad that you're on this website.

 

tom, in NYC we always figured that the term 'United States of America' stood for two states, one state being NYC and one state being the other 50 states, which were really 50 substates. the liberals among us include Nassau, Suffolk, and lower Westchester county in our state, but only a brave few would accept Hoboken and Jersey City as part of our greater NYC State. the boundaries of this state are currently being redrawn, and we are thinking of seceding and electing our own President if Bush continues to mess up.

 

sandy giggle.gifwicked.gif

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