Chellie Gardiner's Blog – June 2009 Archive (2)

Thank you everybody for all of your kind wishes, support, and prayers. All of the staff at the Venice Hospital were more than kind. They really really need to extend the coffe shop hours though. Caffeine is a whole food group in my little world especially at O-dark-thirty when I have to drive way out on River Rd (which I am convinced somehow goes through Idaho - it's sooo long) and then back up to Sarasota. My sister got through the surgery, but because of complications it was not successful… Continue

At 11:05am on June 17th, 2009, Chellie Gardiner said…

A picture is worth a thousand words - or a life. My wonderful, effervecent, fabulous sister suffers an incurable disease called FMD. I won't try to explain the condition to everybody, but one of the symptems is horrific migraines that are completely debilitating and last for not just hours, but days. She has been fighting with her health insurance company for months for a life preserving surgery while her health deteriorates. Her… Continue