I'm sorry, I wasn't clear. I knew he had MS (we called it his "problem") You didn't want your employer to know that stuff, back in the day.

But I didn't know the details, or the time frame. I didn't know he had paralysis, etc. It puts a lot of things into perspective.

Through the mercy of God, neither of my parents ever knew I had MS. Dad died in 1998 (of COPD, still going up and down stairs under his own steam 3 days before he died) and Mom died in 2000. I started having symptoms around then, but they were random and I never considered them indicative of anything but being human.

I didn't start chasing a diagnosis until a couple years after Mom died.