[Magdalen] Jackie O'Sullivan prayer request

[Lynn Ronkainen]

Quite amazing Sally how the confluences of life and "connection" occur. Thanks for lending an explanation to Jackie's situation/surgery.
Lynn 

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On Apr 29, 2015, at 7:39 AM, sally.davies at gmail.com wrote:

I never knew Jackie but will say a prayer for her from sunny South Africa.

Most odd to be reading this now. I'm taking a course in Neuropsychology and
today's tutorial, which I have spent a laborious morning going through,
featured a study of the various glial cells including Schwann cells,
mentioning that a tumour of those cells is called a Schwannoma. Until this
morning I'd never heard of such a thing.

I did know that Schwann cells are found outside of the brain itself
providing myelin covering to nerves, including the cranial nerves that are
affected in Jackie's situation. They roll themselves around the nerve
fibres making them look white... Her tumour must be around her
Auditory-Vestibular nerve but large enough to start bothering the
neighbouring Trigeminal nerve.

I'm glad to hear that surgery is normally successful and pray for skilled
hands and quick healing!

Sally D
> On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 at 12:37 PM Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Praying for Jackie right now.
> Ginga
> 
>> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:
>> 
>> How many of you remember Jackie?  It's been quite a long time since she
>> was on any of the Lists, but she's on Facebook, and I noticed just now on
>> her page that we don't have all that many mutual friends, at least three
> of
>> whom also aren't on any of the Lists now.  She's having neurosurgery at
>> this time, starting first thing this morning (in California).  I quote
> from
>> what she said six weeks or so ago, which I've had on another Lists'
> Prayer
>> Summary.  There are quite a few people here, so I'll ask for a bit of a
>> vigil.
>> 
>> "On April 28, I will be going in to USC Keck Acoustic Neuroma Center for
>> the resection of a medium-sized, highly symptomatic vestibular
>> schwannoma that is growing at, in the words of the man who is arguably
>> the best in the field, a "bizarre" rate. I am functionally deaf in my
>> right ear, my balance nerves are shot, and I am beginning to have
>> trigeminal nerve symptoms. The morbidity/mortality for this procedure is
>> statistically insignificant if performed by an excellent team, so my
>> outcome will be excellent as well. But mucking about inside my thick
>> Irish skull is NOT something I ever desired, so good thoughts will be
>> warmly received."
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Sibyl Smirl
>> I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
>> mailto:polycarpa3 at ckt.net
>