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07-04-2009, 04:53 AM
Post subject: BBV: Chelle's in the Hospital
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Quick catch-up for people who don't know: My girlfriend (Chelle here on FTR and in IRC) has had a non-epileptic form of seizures for the past 9-10 months. They are a result of uber severe problems with anxiety and stress management that manifests itself physically for whatever reason. If you're interested to know more, check the Wikipedia entry for conversion disorder.
I'm pretty tired from 3-4 hours of sleep in the past 3 days or so and so I'm going to give the short version of what's going on. She had some new changes with her seizures which signaled to me that I was in over my head so I drug her to the ER at 2 am two nights ago. She's under observation now while they do a bunch of stuff and figure out what the deal is.
After having her right under my ass 24/7 (I have to watch her for her own safety etc) for almost the past year straight since her seizures started, this is the first time I've been away from her for more than 2-3 hours straight. I get to visit her twice a day for about 60-90 minutes each time, once around lunch time and once later in the evening. They expect for her to be in there another 3-7 days, just depending on what happens.
Just thought I'd give a heads up so you can be all like get well soon or whatever.
Brag: Lately she's been down to having only 3-4 episodes a week, and when they first started it was like 5-8 a day.
Beat: I'm so tired it's taken me 45 minutes to type this but I can't fall asleep and stay asleep.
Variance: Because of the specifics of what happened (which I can't really get into here), she scared me so badly that I was trembling, except I didn't "feel" scared, just a heightened sense of awareness. Which was fucking weird.
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wow im sorry 
i hope she gets better and is out of the hospital soon
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You're a good man for how you take such good care of her. Good luck with all of this.
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I hope she gets better soon.
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Get well Chelle! Best of luck to ya!
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Ick.. Wish chelle our best.
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The older I get, the more I start wondering; Just what in the hell is going on here? 
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not good. Hope it turns out well
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Hopefully next brag will be Chelle getting better.
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That sucks, Good Luck
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I hope she gets better spoon.
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You're a good man for how you take such good care of her. Good luck with all of this.
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Very sorry to hear. I'm praying for her. May she get well soon.
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Best of luck! Get well soon, both of you!
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Damn. Good luck to you both, get well soon 'chelle!
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hope she gets well soon
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You're a good man for how you take such good care of her. Good luck with all of this.
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Echoed
I wish you both all the best
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bring her a picture of boobies next time you visit
good luck
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She's a nice girl and I wish nothing but the best for you two.
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A man is defined by his actions and yours speak volumes. I hope all gets better soon.
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A man is defined by his actions and yours speak volumes. I hope all gets better soon.
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She was becoming my favorite poster on here recently. This is a sad day for both of us Spoon.
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Get well soon.
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get some serious sleep, man. ur no good to her zombified.
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hope you can get some sleep, and when you wake up/see her next pass on well wishes from FTR.
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tell her I miss her posting pics of nekkid gingers.
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Get well soon Chelle! And wp Spoon, as has been said - your actions speak volumes.
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I woke up late and I've got to leave in like 2 min and I'm still in my underwear but here's a quick update. First a small amount of history to understand the context:
She's had like insane anxiety issues since we was really really little (I'm talking like pre-kindergarten). To give you an idea, before I first met her she was having pretty severe panic attacks at least 2-3 times every single day for about 5-6 years. She finally got her some help and with the assistance of a small amount of medication (something like 10mg of Paxil once a day at night) got it under control to the point that it was like a mild panic attack once every 2 weeks or so.
That was almost a decade ago, and until this point her medication had never been checked to see if it was even doing anything anymore. We've known the whole time that her anxiety was a big contributor to her seizures, but we've always been told that her medication was doing its job, even though there was never any sort of testing done to confirm this. While this seemed retarded to me (for example, her weight has nearly doubled since she was first prescribed Paxil), I always had to trust the doctors or whatever.
So of course, the first thing said after her first round of tests and stuff in this center she's in was the equivalent of "lol medicationaments" since the level she was taking was basically doing jack shit. Right now they've upped her level of Paxil and are trying her on low levels of something else I don't remember. She's going to be under observation and getting regular tests and things of that nature to make sure it's not having some sort of unwanted affects, then when she gets out in a couple of days (could be as early as tomorrow) she'll be working with someone regularly to keep it in check.
Variance: I think one of her doctors thinks I'm a compulsive gambler because they acted weird when she answered the question "so what does your boyfriend do for a living?"
Cliff notes: Her medication was playing 5nl on a 400nl bankroll aka not even putting a dent in shit. She's getting the testing and stuff she's needed since before she was a teenager.
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Christ. This is not the news I wanted to see in the commune after a couple of days away.
Stay strong spoon. We're all pulling for ya Chelle.
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lol @ compulsive gambler assumptions
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lol @ compulsive gambler assumptions
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Every one of her therapists and doctors have asked that question and acted the same whenever they received the answer except for 1.
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lol @ compulsive gambler assumptions
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Every one of her therapists and doctors have asked that question and acted the same whenever they received the answer except for 1. |
Surely they don't think there's some correlation between that and her seizures tho?
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- You're the reason why paradise lost
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get well soon, no one to play uno with
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lol @ compulsive gambler assumptions
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Every one of her therapists and doctors have asked that question and acted the same whenever they received the answer except for 1. |
Surely they don't think there's some correlation between that and her seizures tho? |
It's an obvious point to investigate at least briefly when you're trying to figure out why someone has so much anxiety and stress in their life, so I don't blame them at all. Often they've also asked more questions about her dad once they've found out he's a reverend.
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Oh, and today is our 2 year anniversary or whatever you want to call it.
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I only have 2 simple rules when I am coaching a new student.
Rule # 1: don't ask questions
Rule # 2: don't ask questions
I have no interest in discussing strategy with a protege'. Your job is to remain quiet and listen. I have a very systematic approach that I will share with the right candidate and I promise that I will turn you into a force of nature and show you elements of the game of poker that you never knew existed.
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HAPPY TWO YEAR WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT WEEEEEEEE!
Seriously, spoon, good luck to both of you. Keep us updated.
P.S. Take a freaking laptop into the hospital so chelle can give us in-bed updates, lol
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HAPPY TWO YEAR WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT WEEEEEEEE!
Seriously, spoon, good luck to both of you. Keep us updated.
P.S. Take a freaking laptop into the hospital so chelle can give us in-bed updates, lol
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The part of the hospital or whatever she's in doesn't allow it. They also don't allow belts, shoes with shoelaces, or visitors to go into the patients' rooms -- you have to stay in this common area. It's that kind of thing. It's not like a psych ward but it's like 2-3 notches down in terms of the security involved. They don't allow that kind of stuff because some of the people in that unit are being treated for depression and are at risk to attempt suicide or whatever.
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Spoon sorry to hear about what's going on. Hopefully good will come out of it all! Congrats on the two year milestone keep it going. Let Michelle know we're all thinking of her!
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damn, keep on keeping on spoon and chelle
get better soon (both of you)
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Take a freaking laptop... so chelle can give us in-bed updates
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I hope she starts doing this when she's doing better and sent home.
btw lol @ reverend father being more of a concern than her gambling boyfriend.
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Girlfriend: Are you on the forums doing the werewolves again?
Girlfriend: Soo... you forgot to run that errand, but you had time to werewolf? Wtf?
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yikes, missed this. Get better soon, Chelle! hang in there spoon
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She just called this morning and it's confirmed that she's coming home today.
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Originally Posted by Ripptyde
I only have 2 simple rules when I am coaching a new student.
Rule # 1: don't ask questions
Rule # 2: don't ask questions
I have no interest in discussing strategy with a protege'. Your job is to remain quiet and listen. I have a very systematic approach that I will share with the right candidate and I promise that I will turn you into a force of nature and show you elements of the game of poker that you never knew existed.
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WOOT WOOT!!!! That's awesome news Spoon. Give Chelle our best and we all hope things get better and better with the new treatment.
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She just called this morning and it's confirmed that she's coming home today.
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Such good news. Congrats spoon.
Any improvement on her condition as far as diagnoses, meds, etc?
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Be Strong Spoon. Be Strong Chelle. I hope it all works out well in the end, both of you are of large value in the online poker community and knowing you is +EV.
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She just called this morning and it's confirmed that she's coming home today.
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Excellent news so glad to hear it!
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WOOT WOOT!!!! That's awesome news Spoon. Give Chelle our best and we all hope things get better and better with the new treatment.
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Good luck to the both of you and I hope this bad moment can lead to a better long term solution. Anxiety disorders are unfortunately more common than you think (although hers seem very severe) but can be treated.
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btw lol @ reverend father being more of a concern than her gambling boyfriend.
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WOOT WOOT!!!! That's awesome news Spoon. Give Chelle our best and we all hope things get better and better with the new treatment.
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this too.
Great news.
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So yeah, she's home.
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Originally Posted by Ripptyde
I only have 2 simple rules when I am coaching a new student.
Rule # 1: don't ask questions
Rule # 2: don't ask questions
I have no interest in discussing strategy with a protege'. Your job is to remain quiet and listen. I have a very systematic approach that I will share with the right candidate and I promise that I will turn you into a force of nature and show you elements of the game of poker that you never knew existed.
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HELLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FAGGOTS <3
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I'm scared of IRC, everytime I go in there Chelle tells me she's going to fuck my dad in the ass.
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