Shortly after I was dx and in the middle of my first flare, I managed to make it to school off and on. One of my students said at least you aren't in a wheel chair. I wasn't getting around too great at the time with my cane. And a colleague in another department insisted on knowing what was wrong with me. When I finally told her, she told me that she had a neighbor that had ms and it appeared that I was really going down hill quickly.