My Story
I have Multiple Sclerosis.
The short story is my body has a mind of it own. Which I still have problems with that. I like to be the one in control. I am learning.
Me and MS
With in weeks I would have to use a chair with wheels to get around my house. It was something else to be able to move my legs, but not be able to feel them. Mel (husband) Jack (Uncle) would take me down to the hospital. It was like having a stoke but it toke a month. They ran a few test but nothing was showing up.
I had all my family over for Thanksgiving that year. I had told everyone I was having a few problems. I remember telling a friend of mine how I did not understand what was going. Well this friend thought it was all in my head. It was but not in the way they were talking about. I do not think any of us knew how bad it would get. Soon after, Mel (husband) and my Uncle Jack would help me go to the hospital. My legs had gotten to the point I could not feel anything from the waist down. I do remember thinking it was like having a stoke but it toke a month to happen. That is what I told the Doctor's.
At that time Mel and I did not have any type of Medical Insurance. So the long and the short of it, I had one Doctor at the time tell me it could be MS. But it would take a lot of testing and a few more relapses before I would know.
When my legs got better I lost 50% of my eye sight in both eyes on the left side. The only thing I had was faith. I had faith that I would not stay that way. I did not. Every night I would tell myself I was getting better.
Then when I got my eyesight back, I had some headaches from hell.
All this toke about 3 or 4 months. Some of my family and friends thought it was in in my head. Well it was just not the way they thought. LOL
I had work for a research company that I loved. I traveled all over the USA. Back in 2000 and 2001 I worked my butt off to get a full time job. I got it. But my gallbladder in February of 2001 change what was going to happen. They toke my gallbladder out but it would take me months to get over something it would take others weeks too.
In October of 2002 I went back to work to try and get my husband and I a new house. It was hard leaving the man that I had fallen in love with but I knew I was working toward something we both I thought wanted.
While I was working on the road I had found out he was out looking for someone to take my place. To make it worst he was using money I was making to find this new person. I did not know what to do. He beg me to stay. I was a fool. But being in love. I was a fool.
I was on my way back to work when my life would change in ways I never even thought it would.
When the head started to get better I realized that my feet were numb. I knew then it was back.
I told my Doc and he had me get an MRI. Well you did not have to be a Doctor to know by looking at it what was going on.
By February 10, 2003 I had MS. To bad it did not stop there. By January of the next year I would lost a husband.
