Dateline Tonight (Sunday)

[Julianne Weight]

Anyone else watching this show about the little boy with the
hypothalamic hamartoma and the radical surgery done in Australia?

[RaeMorrill]

Anyone else watching this show about the little boy with the
hypothalamic hamartoma and the radical surgery done in Australia?>

Drat. No. What happened. I generally like the newsmagazine shows, but on
Sundays I like "The Practice." And then sometimes just miss them or have to
"compromise" and watch the Simpsons.

Rae Morrill in Maine
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[Autumn]

"Julianne Weight" <jul...@theusual.com> wrote in message

> Anyone else watching this show about the little boy with the
> hypothalamic hamartoma and the radical surgery done in Australia?
>

Yep. Interesting and hopeful. Neurosurgery is our next unknown frontier. It is my hope that it
will someday be as refined as cardiology.

Autumn

[Julianne Weight]

On 04 Nov 2002 04:29:04 GMT, raemo...@aol.com.com (RaeMorrill)
wrote:

>
>Anyone else watching this show about the little boy with the
>hypothalamic hamartoma and the radical surgery done in Australia?>
>
>Drat. No. What happened. I generally like the newsmagazine shows, but on
>Sundays I like "The Practice." And then sometimes just miss them or have to
>"compromise" and watch the Simpsons.

Amazing -- the surgery no doctor in the US would do and the kid is now
seizure free. The Australian team is looking for a location in the US
to partner with to training on the procedure.

[RaeMorrill]

Wow. I've been impressed by stories of Ben Carson, I think at Hopkins, here in
the U.S. He's the one who took out half a brain to cure intractable seizures
in a little gril. Also I think Epstein, who I read had head injury on bike and
now cannot operate. Both of these guys touched me deeply for their great
compassion.

>>Amazing -- the surgery no doctor in the US would do and the kid is now
seizure free. The Australian team is looking for a location in the US
to partner with to training on the procedure.

Rae Morrill in Maine

[Melinda Meahan]

RaeMorrill wrote:

>Wow. I've been impressed by stories of Ben Carson, I think at Hopkins, here in
>the U.S. He's the one who took out half a brain to cure intractable seizures

>in a little girl.
>
There was a lady in a church we went to for a while who had some type of brain surgery for her seizures, and it gave her her life back. I don't know where she went to have it, though.
--
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle.
I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. - Mother Teresa

[Susan Mitchell]

It was good. We get Dateline prior to Alias and Practice so I usually have
it on.

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Sue -- UW Mom -- Rabid Dawg Fan!
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[Liz]

Julianne Weight wrote:
>
> Anyone else watching this show about the little boy with the
> hypothalamic hamartoma and the radical surgery done in Australia?

I watched it - fascinating story. I hope it's not too long before this
surgery is performed here. They said the docs will be coming to the
U.S. to one center to teach their procedure. Wonder where it will be?

Liz

[SallyLou]

I'm a member of the support group that was mentioned several times in
the Dateline show about CJ, and wanted to de-lurk here to give a plug
to our homepage: www.hhugs.com . Please stop by when you can, to find
out more about the gelastic seizures and hypothalamic hamartoma, and a
LOT more about CJ, the operation that he had (and the Wizards of Oz -
the Australian doctors - along with the procedure itself.) And if you
- or someone you know - have the same condition, please drop us a
line!

Sally, the Semi-Senior HH Kid

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[Julianne Weight]

On 6 Nov 2002 07:33:04 -0800, sgwa...@gte.net (SallyLou) wrote:

>I'm a member of the support group that was mentioned several times in
>the Dateline show about CJ, and wanted to de-lurk here to give a plug
>to our homepage: www.hhugs.com . Please stop by when you can, to find
>out more about the gelastic seizures and hypothalamic hamartoma, and a
>LOT more about CJ, the operation that he had (and the Wizards of Oz -
>the Australian doctors - along with the procedure itself.) And if you
>- or someone you know - have the same condition, please drop us a
>line!
>
>Sally, the Semi-Senior HH Kid

Thanks for posting, Sally! I went to the site the night of the
Dateline airing but everyone else on the planet must have, also. The
server returned one of those "I'm overloaded!" messages.

Best wishes to you and all the kids. I hope the Wizards of Oz keep
working their magic.

[DancingDigits1]

> Anyone else watching this show about the little boy with the
>> hypothalamic hamartoma and the radical surgery done in Australia?

Yes, very interesting. I always watch any type of medically related show if I
know about it in advance. I'm also in awe of Dr. Ben Carson here in the
states.

[RaeMorrill]

. I'm also in awe of Dr. Ben Carson here in the
states.

.>

What impresses me most is he is a fine Christian man who lives his beliefs.
He's been written up and even profiled on TV shows. He almost killed someone
years ago losing histemper and I think maybe tried to stab him but knife hit
belt buckle.

I believe my dad has met him or at least heard him speak in church or
something. Something he said about how he prayed or something. If someone is
working on my brain I'd be reassured knowing his hand is in the hand... and
people think I'm antireligion....