To: Soon Yun

[Linda51]

Hi Soon,

I think you and I have responding through some emails before your surgery but I can't be for sure if this is actually you but I think it is. You sent me a photo of you and your family which was a lovely picture and I still have it.

I am sorry you are going to have another surgery. But I wanted to say there is no 2 surgery just alike. If I remember right you did great the first time and just like like all of us we will have some kind of problem/deficit from spinal cord surgery. Hopefully, you will do great the second time as well. Hang in there and keep your chin up! You will survive it and you may come out of with no more problems than you had before so keep that in mind. If you are worser after this surgery therapy can do wonders and with time it can get better. Just hang in there and keep the faith.

~Linda

[jar]

Thank you for your post!
Yes, that's me. I took a semester off after the surgery, and I achieved MD for translation and interpretation. I bought a big apartment last year. My son is taller than me now. My husband is always same. No one thinks I have this serious problem because I try to think I don't have any medical problems at all. I look like that though this morning I had to urinate more times(sometimes less) than healthy people. I am a perfect positive person when I am with other people.
I had an American professor, who was shot in New York and had a bullet in his right leg. When I asked him about depression, which I face from time to time, he had the problem so long and so it didn't bother him at all. Just looking at him at work helped me not to think of anything depressing. Sadly enough, he passed away last month due to cerebral hemorrhage.
I should be grateful for everything I've got but it's depressing to know that I have to live with this. I just hope someday I won't be distracted by this problem at all.
Anyway, I have been trying not to think of anything about the tumor but I guess I need support from people with the same issue since I decided to have the surgery again. Knowing how other people cope with the symptoms is very helpful.
I feel good, and I know when you feel good, everything is good.