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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (56863)	7/16/1999 6:21:00 PM
From: lorrie coey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

I am sorry to hear about your accident. That's fantastic that you have no residual effects-other than the PTSD. I had no idea that anything was permanently damaged in my head...for 6 years after the assault, I had no symptoms. My balance and vision was affected for about 6 weeks after the incident, but then I was fine. I was Great! I know the feeling you mentioned...extreme appreciation for being alive, and a renewed sense of hope for the future...a joy about the gift that is "life". Then, in 1993, out of nowhere, I had a grand mal seizure that woke me up with a tingling sensation in my right foot, then leg, then my right hand...then I went out. It felt like a hot 220 line had been applied to my foot. I consulted with a Neurosurgeon who looked at my MRI, looked at my history of acute head injury and told me how it was "typical" for people to develop brain masses, [astrocytomas or gliomas] at the injured area of the brain. He advised against surgery saying, "If I go in there and there's nothing that needed to come out, I haven't done you any favors." That was in '94. I thank him every day. Thanks for the suggestion...I probably should meet some people who have had brain surgery so I can see that there is life afterward. I think it's immanent for me...and I've never even had an overnight in a hospital...or outpatient surgery, for that matter. [I suppose jla is right to call me a "coward"...I am dreadfully terrified of this propability]. bp, the fact that a few folks here cared at all, means everything to me. As I'm sure you know, anniversaries can be rough. I apologize for my nasty attitude earlier. Thanks very much for your supportive thoughts-

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (56863)	7/17/1999 1:23:00 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Dang bp. So very glad you made it through. Sounds horrid. It is for precisely this reason that I bought my wife the biggest and most robust dang vehicle I could find outside of a Mack truck (she drives something akin to a tank). Folks are just foolish out there. *** Hearing about lorrie's assault makes me so dang angry I can hardly see straight. No dang woman old enough to legally own a gun should be without one. And she should practice a lot and be mentally ready to use it.