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If the EEG ( s ) are/is normal, this might be something to look for, My MRI was from the top down, and the ones that show these are side views it seems. Thanks for the info, I’ll add it to my list.
Recently married to the ever lovable BiPolarBear (little John)
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Recently married to the ever lovable BiPolarBear (little John)
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Always open for pyo commissions, repairs and fine artwork! Email me for current prices! awier(@)weaselsoneasels.comSo, I have started working with…drumroll**…Pipe cleaners aka, chenille sticks!! Here is what got me started >> http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/lauren-ryan-pipe-cleaner-sculptures
So, here is one of my first creations >
and my second>
And My curent work>
Size Reference>
The reindeer was made with 11 Pipecleaners. The zebra’s count is around 50 so far, and is the largest and by far most complicated chenille animal I have made. I don’t think it can get much harder than a fully striped body, but it is just a beginning I suppose. This is fun, but my hands and finger joints are hating me, I can only do so much at a time before my body is screaming to stop weaving. What do you think? About 6 hours in the zebra so far.
Recently married to the ever lovable BiPolarBear (little John)
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Always open for pyo commissions, repairs and fine artwork! Email me for current prices! awier(@)weaselsoneasels.comIt got there in one piece i hope?
Recently married to the ever lovable BiPolarBear (little John)
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Always open for pyo commissions, repairs and fine artwork! Email me for current prices! awier(@)weaselsoneasels.comI got mine a few days ago, but literally have not had time to breathe over the holidays. Will post a pic soon. I have no idea who painted it though. They signed the felt pad and I think it says sunset forest, but cannot read the person’s name at all, and there was no note or anything. Maybe they will step forward when I post the pics. That being said the one I sent is going to Canada, so might be a while before it shows up.
That was me!! I thought I wrote 96037 on the pad? I wrote alot on the little pad, maybe it was too small.
Recently married to the ever lovable BiPolarBear (little John)
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Always open for pyo commissions, repairs and fine artwork! Email me for current prices! awier(@)weaselsoneasels.comWell what if you gave it a different name? Like Violet Flame V2 ?
Recently married to the ever lovable BiPolarBear (little John)
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Recently married to the ever lovable BiPolarBear (little John)
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Always open for pyo commissions, repairs and fine artwork! Email me for current prices! awier(@)weaselsoneasels.comI’m no medical doctor, but I will say this: tests are not the Source of All Knowledge. Seriously. A negative test is not necessarily a negative answer. In the first place, if one doesn’t ask the right question, one doesn’t get the answer one needs. So while I’m glad they’ve tested for everything they can think of, it’s the more “out there” stuff that I wonder about. Have you ever lived in the desert, or visited the desert? How about the Central Valley of California? If the answer to either is yes, have they tested for Valley Fever (coccidioidomycosis)? Although it’s famously a disease of the lungs, I know for a fact that it can get into the spinal cord. Freaking weird place for it to go, and nobody can say why it did that . . . but that’s the POINT. Yes, when you hear hoofbeats, look first for horses not zebras. But when it ain’t a horse, gosh darn it, I want them looking for the ruddy zebra.
TDM is correct: many tests for things like Lyme depend on the presence of telltales in the blood that may come and go. I’ve seen that happen. It’s absolute folly for a doctor to assume that because the test was run once, and was negative, that it will always be negative. Disease fights a constant battle with the immune system. Sometimes the disease is winning, and sometimes it’s losing, but the point is, it’s a system in flux. I’m not saying go have all those tests done again! But rather, figuring this out is going to take some heavy sleuthing. History is essential. Where have you travelled, when did the signs start, what brings them on, all that kind of thing. These provide clues as to which tests might be worth a re-run.
The miseries that you are going through right now are in part due to your body’s determined fight to defend itself. Please, even though this is one of the low points–and who wouldn’t feel really down right now?–be determined that you will get better. Will power is a very valuable tool. Your dreams are not gone, and they are not forever out of reach, so long as you continue to fight for them. It’s OK to fight in smaller ways for a while . . . even if it is only to say to yourself, “I will do this someday!” Make yourself that promise. Having something to strive towards gives one strength. If the job has to go for now, then so be it. It’s OK to let it go while you focus on the fight. But promise yourself that you will return.
Speaking of zebras, I’m going to throw one more thought at you. The nerve symptoms that you are having sound like they’re affecting both the nerves of your body and the ones in your brain. This is actually rather unusual, because the brain has considerable protections against nasty stuff getting in there. So maybe we are dealing with a chronic inflammatory issue–because seems to me like it would take time for the blood-brain barrier to be affected. Auto-immune disease occurs when the body gets confused over what is “self” and what isn’t, and starts injuring itself. It can be brought on by diseases that the body isn’t sure how to fight–like tick diseases, and fungal diseases, and sometimes the completely unexpected.
I once knew a dog who was nearly paralyzed in the front half of her body. She had tremendous swelling of her eyelids, her jaw was locked nearly shut, and she couldn’t control her front limbs. All of her joints were swollen and painful. She had also seizured. After huge numbers of tests, the problem was found. It was a stump pyometra: an abscess in the uterus remnant. From that abscess, toxins and nastiness were absorbing into the bloodstream. Her body reacted violently to these things, in an auto-immune response targeting multiple tissues, and caused her bizarre variety of symptoms. Once the abscess was removed, she recovered 100%.
So what I’m saying is, nobody had a freaking clue what was wrong with that dog until they went back and started going through all of her chart step by step. They forced themselves to set aside what they thought was wrong with her–let go of all their preconceived notions–and looked again. And part of that process was taking another look at the X-rays, whereupon the radiologist said, “Why does this dog have two bladders?” Well, because one of them is an abscess. Nobody had ever heard of an abscess causing so much trouble, but it did. That’s an example of a zebra–more like a zebra in neon stripes riding a bicycle and singing “I’m Too Sexy For My Shirt”–but still, because her doctors went back and looked at her case from the very beginning, and retraced their steps, they figured it out at last.
Your courage rings clearly in your words. Hang in there. Keep your dreams close. We’re all pulling for you!
For what this may help, or not, Most of these symptoms started slowly over time after I had a very severe concussion in the winter of 2011. I was biking to the library and hit a slick of ice, and sliding side ways I stuck the curb, just under the edge of my helmet, as I was pulling into the drive. I was out for maybe 10-15 seconds. I never saw medical treatment, as I was in a sticky situation, and was instead given anti-inflammatory and swent to bed. The next three days I ensued the most painful experience I have ever had.
For what It matter’s. this EEG will be important, and even though I have never shown many signs of epilepsy, I have learned many thing in recent times they may actually tie things that I thought normal as a child to be small connections. Although for further info, The nerve pain and small mental blackouts, even maybe memory lapses, is what specifically started after after that. The pain got worse after I was hit by a car on my bike last year in September, injuring my pelvis as I slid over my bike and on to their car. (I was cut off, going down a bicyle path) In the past few months the nerve pain has gotten real bad, has (for what it seems) caused at least two of the seizures. I started aquatic therapy, which has helped, but after the last seizure, it was stopped until the neurologist gives the OK to continue.
I have never traveld far. I grew up in Michigan in a small town, and I have never been a sickly person. I have always healed really well, and fast from injury’s and cold for me are usally gone in half the time of most I know, so I have little understanding there. It’s just a waiting game it seems. When will it happen again, where will I be, What will the outcome be? These are questions that have become my life, and I am truly afraid of these seizures. And the weakness and tirednss, aches, they just don’t add up to the nearve pain. Where does the siezure come from. These aren’t in my head. Poeple have physically seen me have the siezures, they see the pain I am in, it makes me shudder and tear when it gets bad, and I have a high pain tolerance I always have, so this is saying somthing. I almost always have a constant limp now from the pain and weakness in my joints. It’s affecting my hands, and even making my art difficult..Just looking for answeres and waiting..but for what?
Recently married to the ever lovable BiPolarBear (little John)
www.weaselsoneasels.com | www.facebook.com/weaselsoneaselsAs seen on This is Life with Lisa Ling on CNN (2018) !
Always open for pyo commissions, repairs and fine artwork! Email me for current prices! awier(@)weaselsoneasels.comWell, I have already taken a month off of work, and am now down to one or two days a weeks, which I can barely do. I can’t go anywhere cause aside of not owning a car it is now illegal for me to drive till I have 6 months free of confirmed seizures by the neurologists.
I have had every lab test done. My doctor even ran a full panel, looking for lyme, lupus, hepatitis, rheumatoid, and everything else I too tired to remember. All they have settled on is that I have some type of issue with my nerves hence the severe pain, and that I am having seizures though which kind, is unknown.
I know it isn’t panic attacks, as I have never had a history of them, until the hospital visit in August, when the EMT’s arrived towards the end of it, found nothing wrong, and so settled on that answer. This last time I was in the hospital, a week and a half ago, They said that I have a “history of panic attacks” that they tacked on my list the last time, and said that that is what caused the seizure, that I made myself have it, and again was only there for the last 45 minutes of it.
In reality I had been at aquatic therapy for the nerve pain, keep in mind I had had another seizure the night before, and something wasn’t “right”, so I stopped, got of the pool, and then I passed out, and was unconscious for about 5-10 min, during which the seizure started. I kind of came to, and was in and out, but the next thing I remember after sitting in that chair, was being in an ambulance, with my body shaking, still unable to move, or control my muscles and shaking limbs.
I have had an EKG, and an MRI, both were normal. So I am waiting the dreaded EEG on the 11th of December. I have been instructed that I will have to stay awake for 24 hours before the test, of which I already know that the prolonged time of no sleep will cause the muscle spasm i get when tired, of which I recently found out are not normal, but actually myoclonic seizures. Go figure, I may have actually had this my whole life..These weird little things I always thought were normal are starting to tie in..
so ya, thanks for the support though…I just don’t know who to talk to, it not something people can understand, and meanwhile, my friend are there and have to watch me fall further and further away, and waste away, because there is nothing anybody can do about it at this point..oh and to top it off I have a cold now, just the cherry on top, i guess..
Recently married to the ever lovable BiPolarBear (little John)
www.weaselsoneasels.com | www.facebook.com/weaselsoneaselsAs seen on This is Life with Lisa Ling on CNN (2018) !
Always open for pyo commissions, repairs and fine artwork! Email me for current prices! awier(@)weaselsoneasels.comOooooh! That makes sense.
I just remembered seeing a cart of them and I was like “WOAH! I didn’t know the Circle of Cats was THAT BIG!” and when I looked it up online it was not the right measurements. So there is a little one and a big one it seems. I never actually knew that, but I got all excited when I saw the big ones during my visit.
Finally a candle holder my cat probably can’t wing off the table
I made the big one to be a garden sculpture; a fountain, or maybe it could be a bird feeder, but then we stopped doing cement stuff.
We made a few in gypsum, but it is still so big and heavy it isn’t very good for anything. Hard to ship too…another one of my glorious FAILS.Well it could always be worse. and it wasn’t a fail. It was simply one way that didn’t work for it’s intended purpose, even though it might work for another. 😉
Recently married to the ever lovable BiPolarBear (little John)
www.weaselsoneasels.com | www.facebook.com/weaselsoneaselsAs seen on This is Life with Lisa Ling on CNN (2018) !
Always open for pyo commissions, repairs and fine artwork! Email me for current prices! awier(@)weaselsoneasels.comSign me up! I’ll host one next time! they are so cute!!
Recently married to the ever lovable BiPolarBear (little John)
www.weaselsoneasels.com | www.facebook.com/weaselsoneaselsAs seen on This is Life with Lisa Ling on CNN (2018) !
Always open for pyo commissions, repairs and fine artwork! Email me for current prices! awier(@)weaselsoneasels.comDid you get mine, by chance? I hope they didn’t get lost in the mail…
I just checked, and ya i got them like last week some time i think,
Sorry bout that, the past two weeks have been a bit hectic, and I had another siezure last night. Just tryin to keep up . 🙂Recently married to the ever lovable BiPolarBear (little John)
www.weaselsoneasels.com | www.facebook.com/weaselsoneaselsAs seen on This is Life with Lisa Ling on CNN (2018) !
Always open for pyo commissions, repairs and fine artwork! Email me for current prices! awier(@)weaselsoneasels.comI won’t lie I had some help doing mine..I was putting together two..I wanted to surprise mary (laundry2011) cause she got laid off, and was doing hers for her, and then my 6 seizures and the hospital happened and she ended up driving and helping me get around, and I probably went a bit overboard, but I wanted to, because i was originally gonna do a bunch of homemade stuff and then lost a whole week to my health..blah..
Anyways, she got hers and was super thrilled, I’ll have pictures soon when i get to it, so THANKS alot to kelseyslk!!
The necklace was gorgeous and she said “I absolutely love the necklace and how the colors compliment each other…(she fiddles with it for a minute quietly in aw of the work agian..) ..and (places it on the cat) It even fit’s Harriat too! No don’t eat that!…”
anyways she loves it. and I tried to surprise her , the thought that counts right? 😀
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O.K., here is laundry2011 stuff! 🙂Recently married to the ever lovable BiPolarBear (little John)
www.weaselsoneasels.com | www.facebook.com/weaselsoneaselsAs seen on This is Life with Lisa Ling on CNN (2018) !
Always open for pyo commissions, repairs and fine artwork! Email me for current prices! awier(@)weaselsoneasels.comGot mine today…He was painted by valdata..and oh the irony, he arrived with his left horn broke, and a paint rub on the right,pretty much the exact same breaks as on the one I painted for my swapee before I repaired it. I love him though, his color scheme is perfect! 🙂
uh, at least Harriat likes him, i think..
Thanks Valdata!
Recently married to the ever lovable BiPolarBear (little John)
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Always open for pyo commissions, repairs and fine artwork! Email me for current prices! awier(@)weaselsoneasels.comIf they are troublesome to paint, then i would say charge more for the extra work. they seem to have a high demand and if they are created in limited quantities at a time, then they also create a higher market value in any sense. If the demand is high, the sales will follow.
Recently married to the ever lovable BiPolarBear (little John)
www.weaselsoneasels.com | www.facebook.com/weaselsoneaselsAs seen on This is Life with Lisa Ling on CNN (2018) !
Always open for pyo commissions, repairs and fine artwork! Email me for current prices! awier(@)weaselsoneasels.com
