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Contents

  1. Medical Disclaimer

  2. About This Book

  3. Foreword

  4. Karen’s Posthumous Introduction

    1. The Mystery Headache: Migraine, Positional Headache, Spinal Fluid Leak?

    2. Running for Karen

  5. Introduction to the Medical History of the Late Karen Shettler Paddock

    1. Glossary of Terms in Karen’s Writing

  6. Karen’s Journal ~ 1969-2010

    1. Systemic Tendinitis Starts

  7. Karen’s Journal ~ 2011

    1. Random Chronic Pain Thoughts

    2. Lung Issues Start

    3. Nick Goes to Rainbow Bridge

    4. Can’t Walk Due to Tendinitis

  8. Karen’s Journal ~ 2012

    1. I Found Dr. Gray

      1. First Meeting with Dr. Gray

      2. Second Trip to See Dr. Gray

    2. Rebound Intracranial Hypertension Starts

    3. Struggling with Depression

    4. Living with an Epidural-like Headache for 23 Years No Opportunity to Make Deep Friendships

    5. Duke ER

      1. Benadryl

      2. I’m Blind

      3. Back in North Carolina

  9. Karen’s Journal ~ 2013

    1. What Is Wrong with My Hip

    2. 12 Tips for 12 Years Sick

    3. Arrive in L. A.

      1. LAX TSA

      2. Back Home

      3. Leaking at My Incision Site

      4. Emergency Return Trip to L.A.

      5. Cedar Sinai ER

    4. My Last Picture

    5. Back Home Again

    6. My Last Day

  10. Life After Karen

    1. How My Death Unfolded for Hubby

      1. Goodbye

      2. All of Karen’s ‘Stuff’

    2. I Want a “Do Over”

    3. Mental Health First Aid

    4. A Little Bit More

    5. Karen’s Mother Dies

    6. Karen’s Father Has a Heart Attack

  11. Leaker Hotel Rates

  12. Meeting Duke Dean Andrews

    1. “...And the Silence of the Dead...”

    2. Is There a Genetic Connection?

    3. Karen Is Front Page News!

    4. Donating Karen’s Body to Be Studied

    5. KDKA-TV Interview

      1. The Death of Opossum

    6. Garth Crosses Over the Rainbow Bridge

  13. Karen Changes the CSF World

    1. Suicidal Behavior and Ideation and Antiepileptic Drugs7

    2. More on the Genetic Connection

    3. The Mystery Headache: Migraine, Positional Headache, Spinal Fluid Leak?

    4. FDA Announces Safety Labeling Changes for Fluoroquinolones

      1. Safety Announcement23

    5. FDA Labeling Changes for Fluoroquinolne Antibiotics29

    6. Bayer, Maker of Cipro and Avalox Is Warning Doctors Not to Use Them!

    7. Meeting Award Wining Movie Producer Tina Petrova to Film Karen’s Story35

    8. Myah Hibiske Runs for Karen

    9. Medical Electronics Imaging to Aid Sufferers of Cerebral Spinal Fluid Leaks38

    10. Blake Resolution Designates “Spinal CSF Leak Awareness Week” 41

    11. Pain Nation with Ken McKim - S2E2: Karen Paddock’s Story

    12. Do Fluoroquinolones Cause Cerbrospinal Fluid Leaks?

    13. Intracranial Hypotension Symposium 201748

  14. Appendices

    1. FDA’s MedWatch Adverse Event Reporting Program

    2. Overview of Spinal CSF Leaks

      1. Symptoms

    3. I Loved a Leaker Merchandise

    4. Amy’s Kitchen

    5. Medicare ICD-10 Billing Codes

    6. Interactive Global Map of CSF Leaks10

    7. Memorial Fund

    8. Biography of Robert “Hubby” Paddock

  15. End Notes

     


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