PeopleWithMS.com

I have MS (Multiple Sclerosis) but MS doesn't have me.

What Is Multiple Sclerosis?

MS is an autoimmune disease, whereby the bodies own immune system, which normally targets and destroys substances foreign to the body such as bacteria, mistakenly attacks normal tissues. In MS, the immune system attacks the brain and spinal cord (the central nervous system).

What it has done to me. 

I received my diagnosis, March10, 2007.  By April 18^th I had to leave work on disability. By June, I had to move home with my aging parents to be taken care of.  For the next six months or so I was totally bed ridden.(*note The symptoms that I suffered due to the MS is not typical of  someone that  has MS, nor is it an eventuality.)

 In those months, I had plenty of time to reflect on the life I had led before my  diagnosis  and  while  I had  plenty of  aspirations, plenty of talents and dreams I was not pursuant of any of those talents and or dreams.  I vowed that if there was a drug that got me half the way back to the person I was before, I would do what was necessary to pursue those dreams.

Enter the drug that I am currently taking, for the sake of not being sued I will not say anything against the medication that did not work for me.  After the first dose I instantly felt the strength returning to my body.

Since then anything that my heart so desires to do, as long as I have the physical strength to do so I will do. Being handicapped for me is only a state of mind. While my legs do not work as well as they should every chance I get to walk, I do so.  Every chance I get to travel and well just be out, I take it  for  no one knows  exactly what the next day is going to be like.  I now try to live by the words printed below for the simple fact that at the end of the day I want to leave this world with no regrets.

"Learn as if you are going to live forever, Live as if you are going to side tomorrow." –Mahatma Gandhi