Awwww! This photo made my day! I think I'm in love!

LOL These are great! One time Jim was at the urologist and we were discussing his results. The doctor (head of urology mind you) turned around in his chair and said "You are lucky your doing so well. We never get patients in here with ms so long". I asked "Why is that"? He said "They are usually dead after x amount of years." I looked him in the eye and said "Obviously someone has not done his homework." He shut up and gave us Jim's results. LOL

But other than that nothing usually gets to us. I did comment on Kicker's thread about intimacy questions. Those are really fun to answer!

That photo is the CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTEST ever!

Unbelievable!! What a jerk!

gmi

Sounds like that Urologist is still reading the old scary medical books, Sandy..

Well, I finally spoke up for myself today. I was in Rite Aid picking up a prescription and I went in the store. I usually go through the drive-thru but there were four cars lined up so I just went in.

As soon as I entered the store the florescent lights started doing their thing and I was instantly dizzy. I got a shopping cart so I'd have something to hold onto.

I got back to the pharmacy and parked my buggy off to the side (within my reach) and stood at the pickup counter. There was a woman and her teenaged daughter there, too. Their rx was ready before mine so I went to move over so they could get to the counter to check out. I didn't have my cart to hold onto and I sort of swayed back and forth and thought I was going to fall but I didn't. The woman looked at her daughter and sort of smirked and did the hand signal for too much to drink (drinking from an invisible cup). The daughter sort of half-smiled but didn't say anything. I saw it all. I started not to say anything but then thought that I needed to set her straight.

I looked right at her and said "Excuse me but I couldn't help but see you signal to your daughter that you thought I'd been drinking. I haven't. I have MS....Multiple Sclerosis....and it causes me to lose my balance quite often. You can google it and learn quite a bit about it online." That's all I said. I wasn't mean about it but I did let her know that her actions did not go unnoticed.

She was a little flustered - probably more than she let on - and said "Oh, I have a friend with MS and I know how devastating it can be." No apology, nothing else. I just smiled and nodded and didn't say anything. I think I got my point across. Her daughter looked mortified and went to sit in the waiting area all the way at the other end of the counter!

Good for you, Kell..

My favorite one was thrown out at me from a car window.

No choice but to go to the grochery store on a day when my walking wasn't too great. I always look both ways before crossing the walk, especially on days like that. No cars when I started to slowly go across, but a guy comes barrelling down from the entrance and screeches on the brakes when he gets close.

"Can't you go any faster?" he yells at me.

My response was to shake my head and say, "Nope. And by the way, the speed limit is only 15 through here."

He kept mumbling, but he was blushing too.

Said to me by a GP: "I think you have conversion hysteria".

DH and I still get a laugh over that one, and that was 20 years ago!

An ER doctor recently disbelievelingly said "Really, you're in pain? We don't usually see that in MS patients." I then pointed out that MS causes muscle spasms and muscle spasms usually cause pain.