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--- karen [2015/11/19 01:29]
bpaddock Fixed grammar.
+++ karen [2017/04/16 12:48]
bpaddock Add link to The Karen Paddock Story on Pain Nation.
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 **[[http://www.kpaddock.com|Karen's Journal]] is now required reading at [[https://medschool.duke.edu/|Duke School of Medicine]].**
+{{ :csf:books:aren_writing_her_book.jpg?nolink&300 |}}
 A [[http://www.kpaddock.org|reporter at the local paper]] summarized Karen’s story as: “//Karen’s first-hand account of her illness gave an honest, heart-wrenching depiction of what it is like to live with debilitating pain day-to-day.//”
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 For nearly 25 years, I watched my wife Karen struggle with nearly constant head pain to be relieved only by laying down, a loss of friends and a family that did not believe her.
-I was at times frustrated by lack of support from the medical community.
+I was at times frustrated by lack of support from the medical community.  As I explain in //The Karen Paddock Story// on Pain Nation: {{youtube>AekYnpf8_TA}}
 After many years of her own research, Karen suspected her diagnosis to be a spinal CSF leak so she sought treatment from the best physicians in the field. In the end, Karen took her own life when the treatments did not stop her pain; it is my belief that [[http://kpaddock.com/doku.php/resources/fluoroquinolones|fluoroquinolone antibiotics]] (Cipro, Levaquin and 20 other names) and steroid use complicated her treatments.