06-18-2010
Birds Journal 04-23-2010
5:30 PM letter to doctors:
Life started out normally for me as a twin with a sister on February 22, 1939.
Grade school was interrupted by an illness as a youth at the age of about seven.
My parents relocated their family to Los Angeles California to seek medical help for me about 1947.
I was admitted to Children’s Hospital on arrival to Los Angeles for health investigation which determined that I had Juvenal arthritis and was put on Penicillin, aspirin, and put to bed for several months.
Another doctor put me on a “health food diet” which my mother followed very carefully. I was sent to Children’s Hospital School to gain my strength and catch up with my education.
My family returned back to Detroit Michigan a couple of years later during early 1950’s.
My parents continued to provide a very strict heath food diet until the early 1960’s at which time I left home and came out to Los Angeles to attend college.
Both of my hips were very sore making it difficult to walk without pain. Walking up stairs was a difficult task. Attending high school and college was made difficult because of this hip pain. Subsequent employment after college was always limited because of my physical condition.
There were few facilities during 1947 and 1965 that provided for physically handicapped people especially in school. Employment was also difficult during the years of 1965 and 1995 at which time I became unemployed.
Being unemployable caused me to obtain more college to update my electronics training and modernizes my skills. Computer Aided Drawing (CAD) education culminated my technical education about 2003.
Both of my hip joints were replaced on the first of 2004 with artificial ones because of serious degeneration.
During 2005-2006 a major health examination was performed to investigate a stiff neck, a dizzy head, and a toxic feeling headache. After full body scans, CAT scans, MRI’s, and a spinal tap showed negative, the Neurologist sent me to an ENT doctor. The Neurologist prescribed a five day dose of Azithromycin 250 MG before I saw the ENT which did help a small bit with my symptoms.
The ENT cleaned out my sinuses during surgery in the summer of 2008 which made a big difference in my stiff neck, dizzy head, and the toxic feeling headache. Both side of my sinus were filed with growths and the right side was almost blocked by a deviated septum. The right side of my face presently is still a bit numb which even affects a few teeth on that side. I have been told that this is a cause of the sinus cavities on that side being cleaned out which cut nerves.
I accepted this reason for the numbness as a result of the sinus surgery until I came down with pneumonia in September of 2009. I was suffering with walking pneumonia for several months prior to being hospitalized for 5 days. They found a pneumonia spot on my lung but it was caught in the early stages. But a blood tests also showed a bacterial infection which was also treated by additional antibiotic. This double antibiotic to help the pneumonia and the blood bacteria was the biggest help for my numbness on my right cheek.
My present health condition is recovering from weight loss caused by the pneumonia illness last year. However I still have a small bit of numbness on the right cheek, lip and a couple of teeth. My leg muscles are sore and not strong which could be related to Lyme disease.
It is now nearing the end of April 2010 and I am in need of a bit more medical advice and treatment. Key points about my history and treatments are as follows:
- Only my hip joints have been affected by degeneration. My knees are in good shape and I have no other signs of arthritic joints.
- I was living on a 100 acre farm near Hillsdale Michigan during 1945 to 1948 when I became ill.
- As a youth, could my juvenile arthritis be miss-diagnosed because Lyme disease was not a common illness when I became ill in the middle of the 1940’s?
- Presently the medical journals show sinus problems and Lyme disease do have medical connections.
- After my hip replacements with artificial joints, could that have released the bacterial blood infections which caused my stiff neck, dizzy head, and the toxic feeling headache? Several months later, this condition caused me to seek further medical evaluation with the neurologist and ENT. Subsequent sinus surgery became an important key to the cause of my stiff neck, dizzy head, and the toxic feeling headache; however surgery left me with numbness on right side of my face.
- That numbness on my right side of my face has been reduced during my hospitalization with pneumonia which administered several IV doses of antibiotics.
- Putting a bit of Triple Antibiotic Ointment on a “Q-TIP" and inserting it up each nostril has helped this numbness; but some numbness still exists. Also, the dark discharge has been reduced from the right nostril. My present ENT doctor is not too cooperative with helping me any further.
I think that my medical history and physical can be a good modern day report for adults that possibly have suffered from Lyme disease. However, I have not really had the diagnosis of Lyme disease. Are you in a position to help me with present conditions which emphasizes the numbness of the right side of my face, stiffness of my leg muscles, and of strength of my body? I will release any and all of my medical files as well as my present condition for your analysis and help.
8:40 PM end letter to doctors.
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