You can make an artificial heart, grow a new windpipe in a lab, and make a bionic pancreas. Surely you can figure out what is making me start hiccuping every few hours, and figure out how to fix it, without making lose practically all other function in my body.

Sincerely,
Me

I hope everyone is doing alright. Sorry I haven't really been around. Feel free to message me, anytime, if you need help with anything.

~Kirsten

Does anybody here have, or know, Dr. J Gordon McComb, from Children Hospital of Los Angeles?

If you were composing a hatemail to your surgeon, what would you say?

It's been awfully quiet around here. I hope that means you're all doing well. I don't know how many people are still reading here...

This is a long shot, but does anyone here live in Portland, OR?

Really?? I am shocked. Shocked, I tell you!

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Far more patients with primary brain tumors have trouble swallowing food and liquids than physicians previously thought, recent research shows.

The article is 10 years old, but still...

I know there's worse to complain about, but ( Read more... )

I signed up to be on the planning committee for next year's Brain Tumor Walk. The first potluck was this last Sunday. It wasn't a formal meeting, just a casual potluck for idea gathering ( Read more... )

Not "chronic" in the sense that they never go away, but "chronic" in the sense that I get them at least once a day ( Read more... )

I was just wondering...does anyone else here have problems with swallowing? I mean long term... but if you had Dysphagia that went away-- how long did you have it, and what kind of treatment did you get ( Read more... )