Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!bunker!hcap!hnews!261!1000!Frank.Whitney From: Frank.Whitney@f1000.n261.z1.fidonet.org (Frank Whitney) Newsgroups: misc.handicap Subject: Hello Message-ID: <14200@bunker.UUCP> Date: 18 Sep 90 02:32:46 GMT Sender: wtm@bunker.UUCP Reply-To: Frank.Whitney@f1000.n261.z1.fidonet.org Distribution: misc Organization: FidoNet node 1:261/1000 - Nerve Center, Pikesville MD Lines: 30 Approved: wtm@bunker.UUCP Index Number: 10425 >major effort so I really thank you!! Shalom (Peace) Aaron Welcome to the echo, my wife has MS and she's had many of the problems that go with her disease. It took over 10 years of going to doctors before they finally gave her a diagnosis. They just kept telling her that it's only in your mind. Unfortunately, this has left deep scars giving her much self doubt. It's really a shame the way many people think that she and others with MS are trying to pull a fast one. At times it can be a curse having a disease where there are no outward symptoms. When she was finally told that she had MS her psychiatrist said that "he thought that she had had MS all along" needless to say my wife reacted quite immediately and slapped him. He was a good friend and she felt betrayed because her doctors had lied to her for so long. He understood and helped her try to adjust if there is such a thing. She was blind in one of her eyes but she never knew it until she went to the doctor and he asked her when she had experienced being blind in her right eye. Most of her problems are fatigue and vision related. One time she saw three cars where there was only one and sometimes the yellow median turns into a Y. Needless to say she doesn't drive any more but that is another restriction that she and I now have to live with. I hope that things go well for you now and in the future. Frank. -- Via Opus Msg Kit v1.01 -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!261!1000!Frank.Whitney Internet: Frank.Whitney@f1000.n261.z1.fidonet.org