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Link between venoplasty, MS needs more study
JENNIFER SWEENEY Jennifer Sweeney is a retired speech- language pathologist and consultant who worked with preschool children, young adults and seniors in the health care system and in private practice.
The Vancouver Sun
Oct 11 2013

In 2005, I had three weeks of leftsided facial numbness. In 2009, I started having some strange sensations on the right side of my face that my dentist thought could be from the onset of trigeminal neuralgia ( TN). I asked my GP for a referral to a… read more…

Well, that was cool. I am trying e-paper for the Vancouver Sun and it gives you the options of sharing stories on your blog. It looks sharp! I’ll scan the hard copy as I don’t know it this link will be there forever. It’s a nice feature. If you click on the picture, you get a view of the article as it was in print. And if you click on the ‘read more’ link you get a different display with no pictures.

I’ve had a few interesting calls from people who read the story and an e-mail this morning. I’m easy to find on a Google search and I appreciate the some people have taken the time to look me up.

My cousin wrote:

Jennifer, thank you for writing that article. I am sure it was difficult but it is very enlightening and could help others who are misdiagnosed, as well as encourage more research . . . it is often on the backs of those who are courageous that these battles are won

I wrote back to him and joked that there is a fine line between courageous and stupid.

And a dear friend wrote to me and said I was very brave. That meant a lot to me.