I know what you're all feeling. And my heart goes out to you.

But don't panic until you need to.

A few years back, my son (he was 23-24 years old at the time) called me and said he went to the doctor because his hand was numb. So numb in fact, he was having problems using his hand, picking things up, typing. The doctor was sending him to a neurologist. How long had it been numb?? Uhm, about two months, he said. TWO MONTHS??!!!

I got off the phone, and turned to my husband. I started to cry. Jon's hand and forearm have been numb for two months. He's being referred to a neuro! HE HAS MS!!!

IT'S MY FAULT!!! I gave my baby MS!!

Jump ahead a couple of months. It turned out he had a lipoma (fatty tumor) that was growing on a nerve in his forearm (they are common in our family) which was causing his arm and hand to go go numb.

In a 40 minute outpatient surgery, the lipoma was removed and after sufficient healing time he was as good as new. The numbness was gone and he had complete use of his hand.

Now, I don't mean to belittle your son's symptoms or to tell you that you don't have any right to worry...you are MOMs, of course you have every right to worry...but don't worry about MS until you know it's MS.

There are many things it COULD be. Many so much better than MS...and some much worse. But because we HAVE MS, and we dont really know about all of the other things...the first things we think of IS MS.

Warm wishes to every one out there with a child (no matter how old) having any kind of health problems.