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2005-11-28 5:00 p.m.

It's been a good day today I already got in two good walks before It started to rain.

My new antique china cabinet is doing a stellar job of holding all the previously homeless bone china and silver and fancy stuff like that. Just stunning!

I think having a near death experience has made me more likely to buy what I know we need and want rather than waiting for "someday". Someday is NOW to me...
Why wait!
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Here are a few quotes I found I thought I'd post here:

Vasculitis that affects
the central nervous system (CNS) is one of the most formidable diagnostic
and therapeutic challenges for physicians, for several reasons: (1) the
clinical manifestations of CNS vasculitis are highly variable; (2) the
CNS is a common target of many forms of systemic vasculitis and may also
be the sole target of vasculitis; and (3) specific noninvasive tests are
lacking and material for pathophysiologic investigation is limited. Correct
diagnosis requires a high degree of suspicion coupled with knowledge of
other diseases that may masquerade as vasculitis.

Benign Angiopathy of the
Central Nervous System
BACNS is a subset of PACNS diagnosed on the basis of a characteristic set of clinical findings and a classic or high-probability angiogram. In 1993, we proposed the term "benign angiopathy of the CNS" to define case reports and clinical series of patients diagnosed on the basis of angiography alone who had far more benign outcomes than those described for GACNS.10 BACNS is a distinct nosologic subset (Table 3) characterized by clearly distinguishable clinical features, treatment, and outcome, in contradistinction to GACNS. Patients with BACNS are more likely to be female; they generally present with an acute onset of headache or neurologic event, and their clinical course is more often monophasic and benign than in patients with GACNS. The distinction between the two subsets is generally not difficult to recognize because signs and symptoms are sharply different (Table 4). We have recently described a large series of patients with BACNS that included the clinical, laboratory, and radiologic features of 16 patients as well as their treatment and outcomes.8 In this cohort, the mean age was 40 years, with female predominance (female/male ratio of 4.3:1). The most common presenting symptom was headache, which occurred in (14/16) 88% of cases, followed by focal symptoms in (10/16) 63% and diffuse symptoms in (7/16) 44% (Table 3). Cerebral angiography studies were highly abnormal in all patients. Abnormalities on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) were found in (10/13) 77% of the patients. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis showed mild or normal results in most patients. Follow-up cerebral angiography, performed in (10/16) 63% of the patients, revealed total and near-total resolution of changes in all patients (Figure 2). This suggests that reversibility of the angiographic findings at the follow-up study is essential to securing the diagnosis