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Stephen Marcenko I am currently 40 years old and I have had MS since I was 13. At the age of 13 I had Pars Plantis and I was going blind. The neurologist treated me with a series of cortisone shots in my eyes to save my vision, My vision is fine now. I have gone blind many times over the last 9 years. I have had limbs paralyzed a few time but recovered thanks to IV Steroids. I was officially diagnosed in 1995 after 20 years of symptoms. I was so happy to find out I had MS I was finally able to get treatments for it. I now suffer from serious memory loss. I lost an entire year worth of memory and I suffer from short-term memory loss. I am also suffering from severe depression and I am being treated for it. I am currently disabled I suffered a serious MS episode and I was in a vegetative state for 2 weeks and it took me 6 months to learn how to function after I recovered. It took me 6 months to learn who I was who family members were. I also had to learn how to walk, talk, type and drive again. This episode forced me to go on disability. I am doing fine now, much better than I have been. I am currently in the middle of my Novantrone Chemo Therapy treatments and it is working very well for me. So the moral to my story is no matter how bad it gets keep FIGHTING you can over come anything. Stay positive and just learn how to adapt to new symptoms.
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