yeah, me too...

the MS diagnosis was actually sort of a relief, as the first neuro said "Guillian Barre' or rapidly ascending polyneuropathy" or some-such polysyllabic jargon.

terrified me, that I might soon be in a hospital bed, paralyzed, and having trouble taking a BREATH.

I was just 3o, with three young children, and a single mother, living FAR from family, and not yet made many friends in my new neighborhood, when Optic Neuritis and partial blindness struck, out of the BLUE... with horrid headaches.

"We don't know what it is, just have to wait and see...."

a few years later, my feet went numb, and that numbness spread up and Up and UP.... and that's when the doc mumbled the stuff about Guillian Barre'

oh yeah, and MS really DOES have me! (another person mightily PEEVED by that phrase, checkin' in!)

welcome to NeuroTalk, Keri... and feel free to lean on us... we understand how ya feel.



PS: next week will be 20 years of having MS, counting from the ON in '88.