yes, I was near the tornado, but we are high and dry at my house. LOTS of devestating things surrounding us. People died in their homes, and some had to be rescued from their collapsed houses! The roads are still littered with trees and debris, and its awful around here! we have had rain, rain and more rain, day after day. wild stuff.

If any of you were following my story, I have been dx with MS since 06. I went to an MS center, and found amazing MDs. for the last few months my eyes have become EXTREMELY dry! and an eye surgeon who gave me eye plugs suggested sjogrens. Did the blood work, and it was negative. Saw a rheumy MD and she was dancing in the streets claiming that I had been mis diagnosed and MS was not what was wrong with me, and that I have been shooting all these drugs for years and its not gonna work, or help me, and my MS center should have never dx with me MS, and she wanted to put me immediatly IN the hospital for 5 days of methotrexate and IVSM and then put me on oral methotrexate and it was a whirlwind of confusion and frustration. I was ANGRY to thinK I was mis diagnosed by a major medical center, and had been mislead!

The MS center did a FULL review of ALL of my past medical history back 15 years, and then the big dog himself called me to reassure me that this over zealous MD was OUT OF LINE! That she had NO clinical evidence, other than my dry eyes, and even in the face of substancial medical evidence she was OUT OF LINE to tell me i had been mis diagnosed with MS and actually had SJS BEFORE fiinishing her investigation, and pulling up old records, reveiwing MRIs and including the team that worked so hard to dx me in the first place. He told me that others who have come to them with a dx of MS have had it removed by them, but they are VERY VERY VERY careful to be thourough in the diagnostic critera used to dx a patient in the first place.

So while my post says I have MS, the story is that I have had it for a couple of years now, and its a long drawn out story of another sub specialty trying to drag me off a path that I was placed on with great care, and detailed testing before they dropped me off here.

So, thanks to all for the great support and cheerleading. you really helped me get over that hump.