Lori

[haejin]

Originally Posted by John

Lori is, of course, a model

Ha! There goes the Erika connection.

[Google]

 

[scooberoo]

I don't know about this one. She definitely is hot, but I hope she has a personality to back that up.

[hepcat]

John, you really know how to dig up this stuff.

I hope she isn't going to braid her hair like that.

[AIWANNABE]

In the second picture John posted she looks like Lisa from BB3

[Bill]

She is a Red Sox fan... so no chance of winning

[Fanatic277]

I like her, she seems nice enough. She still reminds me of Erica though, I think she may win a lot of the competitions! She looks great in the last pic that John posted.

[2ctheworld]

Originally Posted by Bill

She is a Red Sox fan... so no chance of winning

Just what I was thinking Bill.

If she lasts in that house for a few months she should come out just in time to see the Bo-sox blow it .. they love to do that in September each year!

[John]

Hepcat found this info, and we're not sure if it's Lori, although it DOES look like her. This would be interesting information:

http://www.theweberfoundation.com/grants2003.html

Lori Valenti, Grant $2,400 May 19, 2003

Lori is a 25 year old woman from Wakefield, MA. Lori is suffering from a very rare disease, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome which is a dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system. Lori was presented with a grant for $2,400.00 to help with her uncovered medical expenses for six months. Her guardian angel is Jeannie Joseph.

[IMG]images/img/Grant_LoriValenti.jpg[/IMG]

(Looks like her on our left)

[Anonymous]

Donnie Darko and Oasis? I've got my favorite!

[John]

Here is "Lori's Story", which talks about her disease. It also mentions Yoga, which fits.

Lori's Story
By Lori Valenti
October 2002

My name is Lori Valenti. I have had an extremely difficult last six months. I just graduated from Umass last Dec. 2001, and got a job that I really loved. After working for the company for about 3 months my boyfriend and I got an apartment together. The very first night I stayed at the apartment I had an awful asthma attack. Over the next 2 months I would go back and forth to allergists, pulmonary specialists, and many other doctors. I was developing skin rashes and becoming very fatigued at the apartment, along with the allergies and asthma. I came down with a bad respirtory infection and finally had to get a lawyer to get my boyfriend and I out of the lease. We had to be out Aug. 1st, this was fine by us.

At this point in time, I thought the hard part was over. On July 11th (and I will never forget that date) I was standing at work and I got a very strange sensation in my head. It was not painful, but is was scary and it lasted for about 10 seconds. Immediately following the sensation I became dizzy and started to vomit. I went into the bathroom and started to splash water on my face, but I was still dizzy and nauseous. I came back into the office and realized my vision was blurred. I asked my boss if she would follow me to the doctors.

When I went into see the doctor I told him all my symptoms. He said I was depressed and gave me a prescription for Zoloft. Figures! That was a Friday. I went home that night and slept around the clock until Sat. night, when I woke up for about 1 hour and then went back to bed. Sunday morning I went to the ER. They did a spinal tap on me and told me that I had viral meningitis. Later I found out this was not the case. After several weeks of not getting better I went back to the ER. They did blood work and took a urine sample and told me I was fine.

About 1 month into this, I woke up in the morning and had an extremely rapid heart rate. I went to the ER and the EKG said 168. That was sitting down. They dismissed it as the lovely "anxiety" and sent me home against my will. The next morning I woke up and my heart was racing again. When I stood up I fainted (the first of about 8 fainting episodes), and I went back to the ER. They did blood work and took my urine again and said I was fine. The doctor specifically told me that there was nothing more that they could do for me there, and that I shouldn't come back. That was a nice feeling when I was so scared about my health…

Finally, the following day I was taken to the Mass General and admitted there. I met a wonderful doctor, who is working with me and researching as much as he can about my problem. I was diagnosed there with POTS. My doctors keep telling me that I will get better. The neurologists and cardiologists can't seem to find anything wrong. They just know that my heart beats too fast (and also too slow at night time.)

It has been 3 months that I have been really sick. I am mostly bedridden except for the days that I go to the doctor's office. I wake up every morning feeling like you would with the flu. My arms are completely numb. My heart starts to race. Then I take my meds, inderol and midodrine, and I force my way to the couch. I have no strength at all. Before this all happened I was running about 5 miles a day. I am nauseous all day, and for the first 5 weeks was vomitting a lot. I am so dizzy, for the whole day, and I have some concentration problems and vision blurring. I mostly sleep the whole day because of the fatigue and weakness. And through all this every test that I have taken has come back negative, except for the table tilt.

I have a good support system and I thank God for my family and my boyfriend who have been so supportive. They have also steered me away from doctors who are quick to label "anxiety". My mind is very confused as to what happened to me. We still don't know what was in the apartment that made me so sick. I am starting to become very depressed about my deteriorating health and I pray for some remission. This all just seems like a very bad dream. I try to do yoga when I feel up to it but, unfortunately, that is not too often. I just say to myself every night before I go to bed, " Maybe I'll wake up tomorrow and it will all be gone."

http://www.potsplace.com/stories4.htm#Lori's%20Story