INVISIBLE: Karen's Journey with Invisible Disability: How debilitating head pain and Levaquin (Levofloxacin) Killed Me. - Softcover

Paddock, Karen Shettler; Paddock, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1511504137 ISBN 13: 9781511504133

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

A newer edition is available from the Spinal CSF Leak Foundation. That edition has been professionally edited to go alone with the documentary Pain Warriors, of which Karen's story as become an integral part. Look for the August 7th 2018 edition. https://amzn.to/2K4Fher

There are four parallel stories running through Karen's writings:

What it is like to live in Chronic Pain every day, the pain of systemic tendonitides caused by the Fluoroquinolone antibiotic poisoning from Levaquin® (Levofloxacin) resulting in Fluoroquinolone-Associated Disability (FQAD) and what it is like to be ostracized by family and friends to end up alone with no help, no support. Too constantly hear from doctors "that there is nothing wrong with you" "you are just doing this to get attention or pain pills".

The idea behind this book is that if you see yourself in one of those threads that you can put this book into the hands of someone, family, friend or doctor and say "This is me!" in the hopes that they 'get it' instead of thinking of you as a crazy hypochondriac out to get attention or drugs.

If someone you know who has Chronic Pain gave you this book, they want you to understand, through Karen, what they are dealing with, possibly every moment of their life. What your friend or relative wants to hear the most from you after you've read what Karen had to say is "I believe you."

Your brain is meant to be floating around in your skull and when it is not due to Intracranial Hypotension from a Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) Leak or the opposite Intracranial Hypertension (too much pressure), things are getting yanked on that were never meant to be yanked on, causing debilitating pain that the word 'Headache' fails to describe.

Karen's Journal is required reading at Duke University School of Medicine.

Foreword by Connie Deline, MD, Co-founder, Spinal CSF Leak Foundation.

If you have Intracranial Hypotension caused by a Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) Leak; Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH); Chiari; Chronic Pain; Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS); Invisible Disabilities, Rare Diseases, Scoliosis or injury from Fluoroquinolone Antibiotic this may be the book that resonates with you.

"Karen's first-hand account of her illness gave an honest, heart-wrenching depiction of what it is like to live with debilitating pain day-to-day." - Reporter Savannah Barr, September 8th 2014 cover story of The Derrick Newspaper.

Black&White edition. Updated May 29th 2017.

About this title

About the Author:

This book was written posthumously by the late Karen Shettler Paddock. It is created from emails and 9,437 Facebook messages. It has been shared by her husband of nearly twenty (20) years.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1511504137
• ISBN 13: 9781511504133
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 348