I've been encouraged by others to post this so here goes; an amazing story of a wonderful, intuitive lil' doxie and how she saved my life. At 12:30 am on Sunday, Mar 2nd, 2008, I awoke suffering multiple seizures on my right side due to a Meningioma (benign) grapefruit-sized brain tumor that apparently had been growing in my head for the past 5 to 10 years. Rather unfortunately, the first time I called 9-1-1, the Oceanside Ambulance and Paramedics team and its training crew came and immediately misread my situation as a more common occurrence they are used to at the pier and began treating me like an addict or an alcoholic going through withdrawals and/or an overall high anxiety, panic attacking, hyperventilating 49 year old woman who should just "Stop shaking my right side and arm and calm down" because I need to just "ride it out". They left with my okay because they couldn’t determine what was wrong with me and, of course, I had no idea either and I was tired of their … [Read more...]