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Anna Lyman

Wakefield, United States

I love life, I have ARACHNOIDITIS (explained in info box under bio) but I won't let it have me. www.pamperedchef.biz/AnnaLyman Forget Never!!!!! I have people ask what is wrong with me being I am disabled. I look healthy on the outside but I have a disease called Arachnoiditis. It sounds like something to do with spiders, not the name of a disease that produces never-ending pain. But that's what it is—even pain management dr says he wouldn't wish it on his worse enemy. It produces paralysis, numbness, weird sensations, loss of bowel and bladder function, memory loss, spasticity, the inability to sleep, vision loss. The list of symptoms goes on, but let's not forget pre-mature death. There is no treatment, at least not from the medical system. Okay, arachnoiditis is bad - but I will deal with it and will not let it defeat me, I plan on living at least another 50 years. What it does is clump nerves together and pushes nerve roots aside and can ultimately fill an entire area of th

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