stroke throwingpunches@myself what mommy said will kill you if you never eat right or I used to touch her hair before she wouldn't let me anymore 991019 ... throwingpunches@myself what mommy said will kill you if you never eat right or how I used to touch her hair before she wouldn't let me anymore 991019 ... megan this can be made two ways. one good, one bad. isn't everything in life this way? 021126 ... 12182005 Time_and_Causality_of_karma 051218 ... Israel 's Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon suffers a stroke 051218 ... jane my_grandmother had one this_morning i talked to her on the phone, she asked me about my brother, and i said, "i don't know." she said, "don't you talk to him?" i said, "not since he's been gone." she said i don't listen. which is untrue, but i have to remember not to take things so personally. i asked her when she wanted me to come visit. and she started talking about the money: "400...450...500...600..." trailing off in the hundreds. see, nana, i was listening. 110118 ... lostgirl on christmas morning, marc was playing with an "age appropriate" toy that my brother in law had bought him as a gift. it was a life sized erector set that is comprised of ten-inch "sticks" and little wiffle ball looking connectors. he had built himself a nice sized fort, however it was slightly too tall for him to throw the blanket over the top to complete the process. so, as a five year old would conclude, he hopped onto the piano bench to become taller, if just for a moment. in the next second, however, he lost his balance, and don't you know one of those sticks found it's way into his mouth and into the soft palate during that one and a half foot fall. after an ambulance ride, an ER visit, CT scan and five hours of a holiday seemingly up in smoke, he was pronounced "fine." evidently he gave himself a crude tonsillectomy but did no major damage. sigh.... relief, right? so the follow up visit was a week later to his regular ENT surgeon, whom we know quite well after two years and 14 surgeries....he told us there was another case almost just like marc's that happened two days after christmas. the difference was that the other kid's accident caused the injury to happen one centimeter more lateral. it clipped his carotid artery and the kid had a stroke at four years old. even the most frightening situations can always be more complicated. the good news is not that marc was lucky....its that the other kid lived. his body and his therapists are working hard to repair the damage of blood loss to the brain. 110118 ... lg hope your nana recovers quickly, j. 110118 what's it to you? who go blather from