[trimjimmy]

Hello everyone, especially you wise and compassionate elders.
I wish to be clear: I do not have MS, I am a first-year nursing student.
My purpose is to increase my knowledge and understanding of what it means to be living with a severely debilitating chronic disorder, and my focus is MS. It is my hope that this knowledge will benefit everyone that I am in contact with as I pursue a career in Health and Service. I am interested in everything from symptoms to treatment, successes and failures.
I have been reading some of the posts available to me and am quite touched and impressed with the stories and the compassion and wisdom of many of the respondees.
If it would not offend you, I would "hang out" for a while, from time to time here, ask you questions and laugh and cry along with you. Again: my intent is only to be of benefit to anyone with a debilitating (or not) chronic disorder.
May I participate in your discussions?
Jim