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-====== Karen was a Zipper Head ======
-Karen was diagnosed with a "only a 3 mm" herniation.  The official definition is 5mm to have Chiari.  This diagnoses is what sent her down the path of CSF Leaks due to pseudo Chiari from low cerebral spinal fluid.
-Karen ultimately took her own life to stop the pain. :-(  She will be gone three years on August 7th. :-(  Karen's Journal is now required reading at Duke School of Medicine to educate future Neurologists and other doctors about the reality of Chronic Pain and CSF Leaks.
-"Karen's first-hand account of her illness gave an honest, heart-wrenching depiction of what it is like to live with debilitating pain day-to-day." -- Cover Story from the local news paper.  http://www.kpaddock.org with more details here:  http://www.kpaddock.com/book
-While Karen never had Chiari surgery she did have surgery on her neck to remove dried blood pressing on nerves.  So she was a Zipper Head.  The doctor considered the surgery a complete success due to the removal of the dried blood.  Karen considered the surgery a complete failure because it did not diminished her neck and head pain in any way.
-In the photos below one from before her car accident and being poisoned by the antibiotic Levaquin, the other a few weeks from before her suicide and the last picture ever taken of her.
-Look closely in this video, you see that she is wearing a TENS unit on the back of her neck.:
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- From Karen's Journal:
-Saturday, June 29, 2013 at 2:20pm EDT
-* I 'pretend' that I am not hurting, when I am with others. It's hard. *
-{{tag>Chiari Zipper Head}}
-~~DISCUSSION~~