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-**[[http://www.kpaddock.com|Karen's Journal]] is now required reading at [[https://medschool.duke.edu/|Duke School of Medicine]].**
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-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.//”
-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.  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.
-Sometimes we choose our mission in life, other times it chooses us.  I have become very active in the medical community in raising awareness of Intracranial Hypotension due to Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) Leaks. A condition that is more common that many think (for example Actor [[http://kpaddock.com/doku.php/blog/bpaddock/george_clooney_has_a_csf_leak|George Clooney had/has a CSF Leak]] and considered suicide), yet is so unknown that some doctors argue the condition does not even exist.
-To raise awareness and to attract research dollars, I initially collected her writings into a web site [[http://www.kpaddock.com|kpaddock.com]] and then into a book. We must lose no one else to suicide due to this condition. I had hoped Karen would be the last, sadly, this is not the case.
-I created this book edition of //Karen's Journal// for the [[http://spinalcsfleak.org/|Spinal CSF Leak Foundation]]  who will receive 100% of the royalties from the sales.  [[http://www.createspace.com/5737105|http://www.createspace.com/5737105]]