my left hand clenches all the time. DD and DH will signal me to try to have me keep it open. Plus I recently broke my left thumb in a bad fall so it is weak and I have difficulties with opening a jar.

And...I also even more recently broke my left big toe. Gotta figure out how to stop my brittle moments. It hurts to break bones.

My right hand clenches but not as much. It is also weak, it was weaker than my left but now? Don't know.

After the MS dx, I was scared but now, not really. I place one proverbial foot in front of the other knowing I am not given any kind of future. I have today, the immediate now.

I grew up with Annette. I feel so sad for her terrible progression. Seeing her as she is now, is a shock and yet, I look in the mirror and see changes and premature aging due to MS in my own self and I'm 2 years older than she.

I wish her well and am glad she has the fame and the dough to have the good 24 hr care she receives and needs. I wish all of the ill, in her condition, could have similar care. Maybe her foundation could do that for peeps. I think that would also make her happy.

It was hard to see this but I know there are many more and w less help.

I was thinking that she was thinking- "Get those dam cameras out of here."

And when she was in the recliner, I was thinking- put her feet up- I know she wants her feet up!

I imagine her husband know what she would like.
ANN

So true Ann. I was thinking the same thing!!!

Although I am very thankful he came forward with this I also would imagine Annette, who was so private even when she was doing better, would not be happy to be filmed now.

That was so painful to watch...this disease is such a horrible robber!! I hope that she and her husband have enough funding to keep help coming in. Gosh...

Wonder if the Baclofen pump has been considered for her. It has been known to unclench hands like hers.

Just call me Cleo, you know, Of De Nile. This is the second place I've been offered that link. Didn't click on it there either.

1. Who would it help? Me or Annette? Bet she hated having others rubber-neck at her life. Reading other's reactions, I know it would make me feel terrible.

2. Because Annette's life is that way, I've learned enough to know my MS is Mine, hers is hers. Her outcome does not predict my own and vice versa. I'll see what unfolds in mine. Beach Blanket Bingo never happened for me and I saw that movie.


Sincerely,
kicker (sitting here with eyes tightly shut)

Hi everyone

Call me skeptical, but I am sorry, the caring and love doesn't quite ring true to me. My husband adores me - and he would protect my dignity, my pride, my spirit and my beauty (no, not in the same league as hers - but it is to him) until his dying breath.

I may be doing him (her husband) a massive injustice here, but as shocked as I was, I just wondered how she felt inside, knowing what was happening around her and I was hoping that this was, indeed what she would have wanted....but I know I wouldn't have wanted it - I think I would have been mortified - even if it was for a good cause (although I am not sure who exactly benefitted from it).

Lyn

Thanks Lyn, I think you said what a lot of us were thinking. The benefit may outweigh the public humiliation of the well loved star of the past. Time will tell, but I will never forget seeing her like this.

It's the main reason that whenever I plan a funeral, it's always casket closed.