Hmmm, I typed three quarters of a fairly long reply...and it just disappeared while I was typing

Anyway....

hang in there...there. The time right after a diagnosis is difficult.

I thought I was handling it quite well...

Until the clerk at the grocery store asked me if I wanted "paper or plastic"?

I fell apart! I realized right then that I WASN'T handling things as well as I thought. And that maybe it was time to concentrate on "me", instead of MS. No, I didn't ignore the MS part of things, but I made a concious effort to put it in the background, and put ME in the foreground for awhile.

It was hard, but I think that's what got me through the next couple of months.

Good luck.