"I tell myself I am much better than the day I met her, but I don't always believe it. I still have moments when I completely shut down and feel unattached to anyone and anything. I still sometimes find myself uncontrollably crying. My entire body will still periodically start violently shaking, and the brain-piercing headaches still show up. However, it happens much less often, and the episodes are shorter."
"My wife Lori had died two years earlier after a 23-year pugnacious fight with a malignant brain tumor. She was 28 years old when she was first diagnosed. We were told she would be dead by 30, but she refused to go without a fight, and she refused to let the treatments or the physical and cognitive issues she experienced get in the way of how she wanted to live her life."
Two years after starting EMDR, the narrator reports fewer and shorter trauma episodes but still experiences shutdowns, uncontrollable crying, violent body shaking, and intense headaches. Episodes occur less often and resolve more quickly, though triggers remain sometimes unknown. EMDR began after an emergency-room visit for a suspected heart attack. The narrator's wife, Lori, died two years earlier after a 23-year fight with a malignant brain tumor. Lori was diagnosed at 28, refused to stop living fully, and accepted periodic seizures while founding a company, skiing, hiking, and traveling. She underwent four brain surgeries, numerous rounds of chemotherapy, and 70 days of radiation, and was ultimately left fully paralyzed for a year while remaining aware but unable to see or communicate.
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