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Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on December 11, 2017, 12:32 PM:

Hello everybody ...

Yesterday, at about 1 p.m. I was rushed to the hospital as i couldn't catch my breathe, and at the hospital, i had a seizure, my first ever.

Therefore, though I'll do my best to have fun in the future on here, if you don't here from me as much, this is why.

The strangest thing is that i thought my hospital visit was just some bizzare nightmare, until i looked down at the leg this morning and saw some leftover hospital tape from where they inserted something into me. I have really no clear memories of anything from 1 p.m. until this morning when i got up.

I wish the best for everyone and keep on collecting

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on December 11, 2017, 12:41 PM:

Osi,

One of my family members has a seizure disorder. I can tell you if this turns out to be a long-term situation, finding the right neurologist is critical.

Here's hoping it's just a side effect of some treatable condition.

God bless you.

Posted by Melvin England (Member # 5270) on December 11, 2017, 12:51 PM:

Osi, I am r e a l l y sorry to hear about what has happend to you in the last 24 / 48 hours and hope that you are feeling a lot better. I am sure this thread is about to be inundated with well wishers from your 8mm friends from around the world.
I started contributing to this forum nearly two years ago and I must say,Osi,that you are one of a hand full of people whom I regard as the big "characters" of this forum. Some of your personal non film related material that you have shared with us (retaking your wedding vows, your amazing video's etc) are a joy to see.
Your health is now of prime concern. Okay, take a rest from 8mm for a while, but never forget we are always here and ready to talk.

.

Posted by Brian Fretwell (Member # 4302) on December 11, 2017, 01:22 PM:

Rest, do all the doctors tell you and get it sorted out. Time for the forum when you are feeling better.

Best wishes.

Posted by Dave Groves (Member # 4685) on December 11, 2017, 01:41 PM:

Osi, I've always enjoyed your postings. So very sorry to hear what's happening, especially so near Christmas. Let us know how things are going. Get well soon.

Posted by Maurice Leakey (Member # 916) on December 11, 2017, 01:48 PM:

Osi
Do take things slowly.
Whilst we will miss some of your postings, do not overdo things until you feel well enough to do so.

Posted by Douglas Meltzer (Member # 28) on December 11, 2017, 05:12 PM:

Osi,

Best wishes and please keep in touch.

Doug

Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on December 11, 2017, 05:45 PM:

I hope your seizure was an isolated incident. Lots of things can cause seizures. I truly wish you a speedy recovery and take you time...get rest...and don't worry about posting until you feel better. We will all be thinking about you.

Posted by Jason Smith (Member # 5055) on December 11, 2017, 06:16 PM:

I wish you a speedy recovery Osi. May the force be with you!

Posted by Mathew James (Member # 4581) on December 11, 2017, 06:49 PM:

Real sorry to hear this Osi! Please keep Well!

Posted by Paul Adsett (Member # 25) on December 11, 2017, 07:32 PM:

My best wishes for a speedy recovery Osi. Be assured that everyone here on the forum will be thinking of you.

Paul

Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on December 11, 2017, 09:34 PM:

All the best Osi for a speedy recovery, hope they can pinpoint the reason behind it...take care.

Posted by Adrian Winchester (Member # 248) on December 11, 2017, 09:39 PM:

Must have been a frightening experience. Good wishes for a full recovery.

Posted by Larry Arpin (Member # 744) on December 11, 2017, 10:59 PM:

Osi-That must have been scary for your wife and kids. How are they taking all this?

Hope all goes well. Please take care.

Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on December 11, 2017, 11:46 PM:

Speedy recovery, Osi. I hope you give us soon good news.

Posted by Mark Mander (Member # 340) on December 12, 2017, 01:54 AM:

Hope you get sorted Osi,Best wishes,Mark

Posted by Terry Sills (Member # 3309) on December 12, 2017, 02:08 AM:

See what a following you've got! So get well soon Osi and best wishes.

Posted by Allan Broadfield (Member # 2298) on December 12, 2017, 02:12 AM:

Get well quickly, Osi. Your contributions make the forum a pleasure to read.

Posted by Rob Young. (Member # 131) on December 12, 2017, 04:21 AM:

Scary stuff. As Graham says, let's hope they can find a diagnosis and get you back to full health.

Take care.

Posted by Kevin Clark (Member # 211) on December 12, 2017, 04:22 AM:

I'm very sorry to hear you had a seizure Osi - try and take things slowly and follow any medical advice you are offered and hopefully you will make a full recovery.

Kevin

Posted by Michael Lattavo (Member # 4280) on December 12, 2017, 06:33 AM:

Wishing you all the best Osi!

Posted by Ali Hipperson (Member # 5643) on December 12, 2017, 07:11 AM:

Hi Osi - I've only just seen your post.

Of course I echo all the previous messages of support and best wishes for a speedy, but more importantly, complete recovery.

As I know how much you, like I, enjoy the forum in the meantime perhaps you can do what I have found just as useful and pleasurable since I have joined this excellent forum?

My original intention was to be an active participant on here. However, as my elderly mother's main carer I have found that I have far less time these days than I use to have and therefore can't participate as fully as I would really like to. That said, I just dip in and out of the forum, when time permits, and although I don't have the time to reply or comment on all the messages that I would like to, I still find it very enjoyable and feel connected to the rest of the forum - even if it's only as a 'voyeur' for now! [Smile]

So please take care and look after yourself - and happy 'window-shopping' on here....when you get the urge [Wink]

Ali.

Posted by Claus Harding (Member # 702) on December 12, 2017, 08:04 AM:

Osi,

All the best in your recovery; the right treatment is a great first step.

Claus.

Posted by Joe Caruso (Member # 11) on December 12, 2017, 09:07 AM:

My best always, Shorty

Posted by William Olson (Member # 2083) on December 12, 2017, 10:28 AM:

Wishing you a speedy recovery. Happy Holidays!

Posted by David Hardy (Member # 4628) on December 12, 2017, 10:46 AM:

That's sad news Osi. I hope you get well soon and have a swift recovery. Take care my friend.

Posted by Evan Samaras (Member # 5070) on December 12, 2017, 11:07 AM:

I hope you are feeling better Osi, and I wish you a speedy recovery. Steve is right, a good neurologist is a critical point at this time.

Posted by Joseph Randall (Member # 4906) on December 12, 2017, 01:40 PM:

Wishing you all the best.

- Joseph

Posted by Jean-Marc Toussaint (Member # 270) on December 12, 2017, 03:18 PM:

Get well soon Osi.

Posted by Tom Photiou (Member # 130) on December 12, 2017, 03:45 PM:

Osi, very sorry to hear of this, we wish you a very speedy revovery and hope its a one off.

Posted by Daniel Macarone (Member # 5102) on December 12, 2017, 08:44 PM:

Osi,
Speedy recovery. Best wishes.

-Daniel

Posted by Lindsay Morris (Member # 3812) on December 13, 2017, 07:06 PM:

Ouch NOT nice Osi.

Hopefully a speedy recovery puts you back on your feet. [Smile]

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on December 15, 2017, 11:41 AM:

Hello folks ...

first, I thank all of you for you're well wishes, deeply appreciated. My back was really tore up by the seizure, (I probably tensed up really bad but I'm just assuming that as i have no memory of Sunday 1 pm to monday 6 am). my inner clock is non-existement, at least at the moment, but i am feeling a little better.

Once again, all the best to all of you and thank you.

OSI [Smile]

Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on December 15, 2017, 12:48 PM:

Hi Osi

Glad you are feeling a bit better, just a word of caution though, out here you are not allowed to drive for 12 months after a seizure. I am sure your doctor would have told you this, but just in case they didn't, I thought I would mention it due to the dangers of getting behind the wheel to soon after a seizure.....give things a bit of time......all the best.

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on December 16, 2017, 10:27 AM:

Yes, i will have a friend drive me to my appointment in Boise, (as i live in mountain Home). besides, my "reaction time" to what's around me is off as well, so it wouldn't be a good idea to drive in heavy traffic.

The thing that really unnerves me about all of this is that until this year, at 52, i had never had a single serious health issue and now my body is telling me something that i knew for the last ten years, but put dramatic impact upon the point ...

"You aint 30 anymore!"

Posted by Dave Groves (Member # 4685) on December 16, 2017, 10:52 AM:

Osi, I always say that when you get to 60, it either works, half works, doesn't work at all or it's dropped off' Look what you've got to look forward to!!! Seriously, glad you're feeling a bit better. Christmas will be something to look forward to. Hope all continues to go well

Posted by Jake Mayes (Member # 3292) on December 18, 2017, 05:46 AM:

I have a friend with seizure problems, i am sorry to hear about that! Most of them can be controlled with medication, keep strong, sorry to hear about that

Posted by David Roberts (Member # 197) on December 18, 2017, 03:31 PM:

I used to work with people that had epilepsy,and mostly the seizures can be well controlled. hope things resolve well for you Osi.

Posted by Brian Hendel (Member # 61) on December 20, 2017, 06:39 PM:

Obi - Just saw this and I hope you are feeling better. I keep getting reminders that I'm not 20 something any more, too... it's no fun getting old(er)...

Posted by Brian Hendel (Member # 61) on December 20, 2017, 06:40 PM:

Osi - Just saw this and I hope you are feeling better. I keep getting reminders that I'm not 20 something any more, too... it's no fun getting old(er)...

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on December 21, 2017, 12:11 PM:

I went to my doctors appointment yesterday and it's a little disconcernting when the doctors are as clueless as you are! At least i know that it wasn't caused by an unknown diabetic condition, but now they think it might well be either a freak heart condition or something in the brain ...

... so I'll be wearing one of those heart monitors and going thru lots of ECG's and such and basically becoming a test subject which is not too much fun to look forward to.

I hope you folks don't mind me sharing this stuff with you, but there are quite a number of you that I consider almost family thruout the years on this forum and I've grown quite fond of and so, hence the sharing.

I do know one thing that i will do soon, in the case of the worst case scenario ...

I'm going to make a list on paper and on WORD file, for my wife, of all my film collection so that, if things should really go downhill, if my wife should sell my collection, she'll know what the films are actually worth and so she won't be ripped off if she should need to sell it in the future.

Not a nice thing to think about, but certainly practical.

How life can change in two weeks ...

Two weeks ago, i had finalized the album and all the cuts that I am going to release on my first officially released full album, including first music video! Even a person who nearly hates my guts who heard the first single to the album told me, "I pretty much hate but I love the song", so I think I've really got a winner to run with ...

... but now releasing all promoting this is all on hold until i find out what in the heck is going on with my body! Grrr!

On the plus side, I just won a low fade print of "Road to Bali", so a nice thing in the midst of it all. [Smile]

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on December 21, 2017, 12:58 PM:

Osi,

As I said, I have a family member who has a chronic seizure disorder.

Decades on, they haven't pinpointed a cause of the seizures, but basically through trial and error over the decades they have controlled them. This is why finding somebody who knows what they are doing is so critical. The human nervous system is probably the most complex system we know of, and nobody fully understands it. It pays to at least have somebody whose guesses are good! At one point the doctors had this particular patient on three meds at the same time and still the seizures weren't under full control. Finally a better neurologist was found, the medications cut back to just the right one, and the patient was eventually able to get a driver's license.

Courage!

-Grizzly Adams is out there someplace!

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on December 22, 2017, 11:32 AM:

Thanks Steve ... [Smile]

I go for some more tests today. Since the obvious isn't turning out to be true, now I'm doing the heart and brain stuff so hopefully they will have some SOME answer!

Posted by David Ollerearnshaw (Member # 3296) on December 23, 2017, 07:17 AM:

Hope you are feeling better, take it very easy. My best wishes.

Posted by Dave Groves (Member # 4685) on December 24, 2017, 11:15 AM:

Osi,
Good to read the update and glad to know that you got a good print of a favourite film. You've obviously got your priorities right. Some years ago my wife had Leukemia. Following successful treatment, a little bug travelled from her nose, to the corner of her eye, to the base of her ear. The cream just sent it to the next stop. After two years she met a new specialist who said 'I know what that is' and prescribed a different cream. Result? Cure! Hope you get the right specialist. My wife joins me in sending our very best wishes for as good a Christmas as you can enjoy.

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