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Originally Posted by sa meredith
Evanstar....I sent you a long, well wishing email, as I felt bad about hate emails you have received.
However, today I have learned quite abit more. I'm not going to write much about...as it is not my place. But I learned what the "head injury" was, and what has taken place over the past 5 years......I believe you to be a bit to alot disingenuous. There is no disputing this. You should publish your story here with a link to the newspaper article. Just my opinion...I will say nothing more.
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Your pm is among the nice pms that I have received, and I sent you a long reply to further explain my head injury.
No, you weren't "Duped", and I have not been disingenuous. Like most people, who learn a little bit about me, you have jumped to completely wrong conclusions about something that you really don't understand fully. My medical history is extremely complicated. At one point I was seeing 9 doctors at once and underwent a complicated surgery at Dartmouth Medical Center that took 14 hours and involved 4 surgeons. My surgery was halted partway through and the head neurosurgeon was called in to examine me, when spinal fluid was discovered in an area that it shouldn't be.
I have never, ever misrepresented myself on this forum, or been anything but totally honest here. When members of this forum suggested that the story in the Concord Monitor might be about me, I openly admitted that it was indeed written about me. I've even given out my location, along with my real name. (If anyone wants to read what was written about me, go to concordmonitor.com, and search for "Arwen.")
sa meredith, you don't know the whole story, so please stop judging me on what you think you know. The story in the Concord Monitor never even mentioned my disabilities or my head injury - which happened many years ago, when I was very young. My head injury was very real and I have medical proof that I suffered rather severe brain injury to the left side of my brain. I had two documented learning disabilities due to language problems and the right side of my brain is actually overdeveloped (to compensate to the damage to the left side). I have seen scores of doctors, from neurosurgeons to endocrinologists.
I'm not making this stuff up. I've been though hell, and most of my doctors tell me that I'm the strongest person they know. So please don't judge me because of one label, that very few people can actually understand. Melanie did a very good job writing the story about me, and only made a few errors, due to not fully understanding what I tried to explain. But that is not the whole story. It would take a book to tell my whole story.