DEJ: Everything you are saying, I can't add anything else.

It seems people all over that do not have this disease or another
disease just don't understand.
I don't think there is anything specific that can be said to make
them understand.

I remember one incident that especially stays with me. This goes
back many years ago.

I was at our local American Veterans Club with DH after the
local parade for Memorial Day. I didn't march in the parade, body wouldn't
let me and it also was a very warm day that year.

While sitting at a table with some friends talking about the parade
and how well the marching went, a women I only have seen at the club
when something was going on, asked me why I didn't march in the parade
since I was a member and active in the organization. I told her I couldn't
because of a problem. She persist, I finally told her, I had MS and at this
time the body was in no condition to do any marching.

She looked at me and said "You look so good and healthy"
(my temper was slowly starting to boil) "You don't look sick"
I looked at her and said, "MS doesn't put on a glamour show, it
hides inside and takes over your body and life.

She still was a little bit of a pest, finally I said

"What if you take me now, just the way I look at this moment, put
me in a wheelchair, would you have said, "you look so good, you can't
be sick"?

That put a sock in her mouth!!!!! Never saw her again at the club.

Jappy