Today I got to meet a hero of mine, and learned she also has TN.
Dorli Rainey was born in Austria in 1929. She moved to the Pacific NW in 1956. She has become a well known mover, and shaker in the Peace Activism movement. She is all of five foot nothing, but it is known she is not a lady to be messed with.
As I sat at the table with her, and two mutual friends, someone asked me how I was doing after my last TN surgery. When I was done talking, Dorli asked me if my face often felt like it does when the novicaine starts to wear off. Mind you I was rubbing my face due to the same feeling, as we were talking. She told me that while it felt funny, it did not hurt, and she was not drooling, so she was not worried about it.. In my eyes, at that point, she became a even bigger hero to me. She goes all over the country speaking about the problems at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. 2 years ago she got peppered sprayed by a bunch of out of control Seattle cops. That story went international. This is just a small part of what she has done since she got TN. I hope I can come close to accomplishing what she has.