George Clooney's neck/brain injury from 2005

Ditto! Take care of yourself, Michelle! The kitchen is always open!

you are right!!!

Be well Michelle!

Thank you! I will get over this hurdle.i think the main part of my problem is the answer to it is not available and the help i am getting is the wrong help

it's me wrote:
"Open House, Open Heart"


hmmm.... my sensation is that something is still ... absent

what? what is #3?
open....

Open mind? (already open ) What are you looking for It's me?

Michelle meyers wrote:Thank you! I will get over this hurdle.i think the main part of my problem is the answer to it is not available and the help i am getting is the wrong help

Perhaps you are being given the time to "review your situation" dear Michelle... Sometimes we don't necessarily ask the right persons the right questions to finally strike on the right answer bulls-eye, na? And so we hear the silence...

Wait and pray over it if you are not certain about/with the truth, before you take your FINAL call la...

Yup... House rules... we might have to take this further inside the kitchen I guess...?

who is the sweet praying animal, Pari?

non c'è il due senza il tre, qui si dice
(no two without three, they say -more or less- here)


so guess the #3 open was his parents' house

ciao

I have to say, I was kinda surprised in The Descendants, that he carried Shailene up the stairs. Couldn't have been easy if he has chronic back pain..

right
hope he shot it FAST! 2 or 3 steps
1 or 2 putting on bed
and STOP!

it's me wrote:who is the sweet praying animal, Pari?
.....

Ooooops sorry I missed answering you It's me... that was from a news item in Daily Mail... I felt uncomfortable putting it up because I wasn't sure about it's copyright... although I did leave the little tag at the end...

Anyways... I got something precious up there now

so beautiful!!!!!!!!
so sweet!!

Pari wrote:

it's me wrote:who is the sweet praying animal, Pari?
.....

Ooooops sorry I missed answering you It's me... that was from a news item in Daily Mail... I felt uncomfortable putting it up because I wasn't sure about it's copyright... although I did leave the little tag at the end...

Anyways... I got something precious up there now

It was a beautiful avatar Pari.
The current one is also nice.

YUP YUP YUP!!! Glorious Mamma love...

Thanks It's me, Zizi... Know what??? Mighty thrilled today, that I got it up there... it all just happened...

Thanks also to our Hathaross for it... YAY

Pari wrote:

Michelle meyers wrote:Thank you! I will get over this hurdle.i think the main part of my problem is the answer to it is not available and the help i am getting is the wrong help

Perhaps you are being given the time to "review your situation" dear Michelle... Sometimes we don't necessarily ask the right persons the right questions to finally strike on the right answer bulls-eye, na? And so we hear the silence...

Wait and pray over it if you are not certain about/with the truth, before you take your FINAL call la...

Yup... House rules... we might have to take this further inside the kitchen I guess...?

I have been review and reviewing, etc etc etc , believe me! Although, you are very right about talking to the right person, the right questions to get the right answer. i found someone a long time ago who was the most helpful but, then I moved and he was too far after that. then i found someone else who's just not helpful at all. of all people to finally give some real help was one of my facebook friends. lately, twice in a few weeks she has been very helpful ... go figure.
I haven't gotten to the right bulls eye yet but sometimes it feels ( excuse the cheese alert) like the right answers are blowing in the wind and stop listening to all the negativity around me along with the silence you mentioned and that is why I get so distressed. When i try for help it's just negativity back at me.
I feel like the tide is turning though

Thank you for your help.

I like your avatar, Pari. George really loves his mom, you can tell.

sure!!!!

Just wanted to send the biggest warmest big sis hug to George, Michelle and anyone else (next mrs clooney? ) that has constant daily pain. I had cervical spinal surgery a few years ago and 2 sets of docs said I was lucky to be walking. the pain was TERRIBLE. I know what that kind of daily pain is like i know what vicodin, muscle relaxers are like...

y'all are true heroes. (our george included) *claps* *steps off soapbox**

I hope there is some way they can stop & resolve george's pain and whatever causes it.

Oh crap. Forgot something. Syriana is one of the few George Clooney movies that I just can not watch. It has nothing to do with his injury more the scene where the thumb is cut off. just a brutal movie.

i can't watch it. *shudder*

no more bike
and he wears a bit more meat

can't he work out?


(btw
what does it mean phlg? anyone?)
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Sorry not talkative this week. One day i am feeling good the next next not so much. I am not feeling well emotionally and trying hard to look forward to my birthday but, it's coming and going. i feel happy at times and then others not caring at all.

So not feeling too talkative. Thanks, for being there. At times I think of leaving this board but, then I think well, i would just come back again anyway.


here's hoping my birthday will be One Fine Day

tell us, so we will enjoy that bd with you!!!
hope you'll be fine
SOON!

Hi Michelle - I don't know when your birthday is but I hope you have a nice one. You know what they say, when the going gets tough the tough get going. Hang in there. I hope you're not depressed, when things don't go right for me I just get mad. As the old saying goes it's better to be pissed off than pissed on. LOL

LOL!

it's me wrote:no more bike
and he wears a bit more meat

can't he work out?

I think he probably can. Maybe he hasn't time or the desire to work out strenuously.

I think he's in good shape and looks a lot better than when he's skinny which just makes him look ill.

yep
could be
thanks

George needs to see a good physical therapist, along with possibly a good acupuncturist. Once he gets to the root of the pain problem, the pain will take care of itself. I know this from personal experience. A good chiroprator who practices holistic medicine will also be a good measure.

cindigirl wrote:Hi Michelle - I don't know when your birthday is but I hope you have a nice one. You know what they say, when the going gets tough the tough get going. Hang in there. I hope you're not depressed, when things don't go right for me I just get mad. As the old saying goes it's better to be pissed off than pissed on. LOL

I tried getting mad and that is just wasted energy and i get tired from being angry half the day.


Anyway, I feel great NOW! last night my parents came to dinner and I mentioned on here two and a half weeks ago that I can fit back into my prom dress... WELL.. We pulled out my camera and i put on my dress and took a few photos of me in it and I felt wonderful after that. I AM looking forward to my birthday now... I am going to be 43 years old and i got comments from my facebook I look more like 34. Actually I am used to it. Some people think i look 28 in the summer when i am in my shorts or sundresses

My birthday is March 7. It should be in my profile, I think

There are some things that an acurpunctionist or a chiropractor can't fix. He is in pain management and if his Dr. thought that either of those avenues would do him good, I'm sure he'd have sent him on that path. He says he has learned to live with the pain, and does the best he can. I'm sure his "line of work" causes him a lot of his pain problems. As he has stated, his headaches are Positional, being on his feet too long, or sitting upright too long. As a director, he is standing for very long periods of time. As a writer,he is sitting for very long periods of time. While acting, his actions probably don't cause him too much trouble as scenes, if done right, don't really have to last too long. I'm sure all the awards galas, Q & A sessions, and interviews cause a great deal of havoc, and maybe that is why we seem to see him in pain at times. Maybe those times that some people accuse him of being drunk are some of those times. When someone has a very severe headache, little things like the strobe-like flashes of paps' cameras, can cause increased pain during which keeping one's eyes open wide would be just about impossible. JMHO

Happy B-Day, MIchelle!! I hope you will enjoy it.

Thank you and you were the first person
MM

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happy
happy
happy birthday!!!

Hope you had a nice birthday Michelle!

Happy Birthday Michelle! Hope you have many more happy ones.

you are right
so excuse us

then
what do you think @ his further surgery: real or not?

Maybe real,
and he is probably looking forward to all
the lovey dovey get well wishes.

With jokes aside, if he does gets a surgery.
I wish him the best and for God to protect him.

was in the hospital
yesterday


so strange place

I mean
a whole community
with rules and habits
all very well specific
that keep living
24/7
into that walls

anyway
hope the best for him

surely, if ever
it will be in the best place he can reach
but always
an hospital

good luck G

it's me wrote:

anyway
hope the best for him

surely, if ever
it will be in the best place he can reach
but always
an hospital

good luck G

Yes, GOOD LUCK, Mr. Clooney!!!!

and the best lovey dovey "you will be fine" wishes for him

it's me wrote: was in the hospital
yesterday

.....

anyway
hope the best for him

surely, if ever
it will be in the best place he can reach
but always
an hospital

good luck G

YUP!!! Joining in all of your BEST wishes for our George...

Wishing you THE BEST of "get well" treatment+healing George... wholesome... heart, mind, soul and body... Prayers, Positives, BESTESTS... God be with you, as with all HIS Angels assisting you through this ordeal...

it's me wrote: was in the hospital
yesterday


so strange place

I mean
a whole community
with rules and habits
all very well specific
that keep living
24/7
into that walls

anyway
hope the best for him

surely, if ever
it will be in the best place he can reach
but always
an hospital

good luck G

Excuse my confusion, but are you saying YOU were in the hospital yesterday or that George was in the hospital?

I was
some routine visit

about G I don't know...

it's me wrote:I was
some routine visit

about G I don't know...

Ah, thank you for clearing up my confusion. I do hope you are alright!

yes!
thank you
everything ok!
hipe the same for you!

it's me wrote:yes!
thank you
everything ok!
hipe the same for you!

Good and yes!

Speaking of, this blurb just popped up on twitter (although the original date looks to be in January, but what I noted was the update they provided:

5:20 PM PT: George’s rep now tells us the actor was kidding when he said he needed more surgery. Let’s hope so. Surgery sucks.

Read the whole thing here:

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George Clooney is still a broken man … but TMZ has learned he’ll be heading back to the hospital for ANOTHER elbow operation … so he can return to banging Stacy Kiebler at full strength.

It was only two months ago that Clooney posed for a photo
at the Ravens game in November — sporting some kind of space-age elbow
brace. His rep had told us, he had recently undergone a procedure to
fix something in his arm joint.

It’s unclear exactly what’s wrong — but it’s not better yet … because
last night in NYC, George left the Carlyle Hotel, claiming he still had
“a little more surgery” left.

5:20 PM PT: George’s rep now tells us the actor was kidding when he said he needed more surgery. Let’s hope so. Surgery sucks.

GREAT!!! IF everyone is keeping well YAAAHHOOOOOOO

This is an old interview I have more on his injury just need to find them.
There NO LINK because this came from my files.

GEORGE CLOONEY OLD INJURY

Sunday Mirror,
By Flavia Bertolini
Nov 6, 2005

George Clooney has had his share of hanging round hospitals, but to be fair, he was pretending to be saintly pediatrician Doug Ross in ER at the time. However, recently, the grey-haired god has had a more serious brush with ill health.

George famously had to grow an unsightly shaggy beard and put on 2st 10lb for his role as CIA agent Robert Barnes in the movie Syriana, which he made in Morocco at the end of last year. The movie opens in Britain in Jan 2006, and it was during filming of the political thriller that George had an accident which led him to fear for his life.

During a torture scene in which two thugs beat him up, George was strapped to a chair when it was unintentionally kicked over and he fell backwards, hitting his head and tearing his dura the sac of fluid which surrounds the brain and spinal chord.

The actor, 44, was so badly hurt, the brain fluid began leaking out of his nose. I was scared, I thought I was having a stroke, as my family has a history of strokes, George explains.

After the incident, he was in terrible pain and went to see a doctor, but was sent away and told he just had a headache. It was like an ice- cream brain freeze 24 hours a day, but I understand what they were thinking, Oh, he is an actor, he is just being dramatic, George says. But over the following weeks, the pain intensified, so he got on a plane to see a specialist in LA, where he was diagnosed with a ruptured dura and had emergency surgery to stop the leak.

George soldiered on and, though his condition worsened, he attended the premiere of Oceans Twelve in December despite being in so much pain he could barely walk. Just a few days after that, he underwent complicated surgery in which doctors pinned his spine back together with plastic bolts.

George, who split from lover Lisa Snowdon earlier this year, says, It was the most unbearable pain I've ever been through... I basically bruised my brain. It was bouncing around in my head because its not supported by the spinal fluid.

To make matters worse, George has been unable to use conventional pain relief. He explains, I dont take painkillers because weve had members of our family whove become very fond of them over the years. Instead, George opted for therapy that teaches him to ignore the pain.

After having to wear a neck brace for a while, George is left to cope with the short-term memory loss caused by the accident. I have to work the memory muscle by counting everything, like how many times I pedal when I am on a bike. He also sticks Post-It notes everywhere to remind him whats going on.

Its been a terrible year for George. His brother-in-law died of a heart attack at 45, his grandmother died in the summer, and his dog was killed by a rattlesnake. But the heart-throb has come through what hes called the worst year personally I’ve ever had and is back at work, filming The Good German with Cate Blanchett. He also promises his fans he will make a full recovery, saying, I'll whip it... Its not permanent. Its a bruised brain. Its OK, its going to be fine.

We hope so...

Oh God NO!!! No brain injuries of any kind for anyone!!!

Maybe he had surgery on the dura matter of the spinal chord. But not in the brain region; neck perhaps.

...where he was diagnosed with a ruptured dura and had emergency surgery to stop the leak.

So, the "grey-haired god" (as described in the article) required mortal surgery.... 
His own Achilles Heel.

I wonder how many nurses volunteered to give him sponge baths?
At least he fully recovered and is well.  

It was considered Brain Surgery. The Dura leak was at the very top of the spinal column in the brain area. That is the reason for all the violent headaches which he still gets but not as in the beginning. Your nervous system goes through the spinal column which in turn can affect other parts of the body.