Been taking my mom for her PT(she had a concussion) at the big PT place lol.
She has balancing problems and has to do brain execises.

Anyways while sitting there yesterday this really really young girl comes in riding a power chair...I'm talking late twenties early 30's, beuatiful.. Well I just asked her....is it MS? She says yes...
I was embarrassed to even say I have been Dxe3d with it as I don't appear to be effected...hell I can still do single track on my bike.

I'm older and fine shape, she's a lot younger and totally disabled....

I don't even need a cane to walk with..yet...

MS must of taken her down with a couple of years! She was going in for water therapy as I saw her mate had a wheelchair made of plastic tubing....I assumed it was for water.

Also saw some quads and paras.......wow....I feel bad for them.

One guy has a bone disease and has broken his leg 4 times in the past 4 years!...... he walks with a walker and rides a chair....looks around 50 years old!

I feel lucky all of a sudden! and MS seems so random....some are lucky some are not right from the start!

I feel lucky!!

Weird and random are good words for MS!!!

I've noticed some stiffness in my fingers that is irritating sometimes....it's the left hand I can't move my fingers as fast with it than my right.

Yes very random and weird...... that girl was in a power chair and she is younger than me!

I know that when I was walking with a walker at 23 people would treat me horrible, like I was using it for attention or something. Luckily that was a flair that I "mostly" recovered from. Now it's just progressing Yes this disease is very random. I have a friend who has been diagnosed for over ten years, I have been diagnosed for almost five years and she is always telling me that she feels bad that I am so much worse off than her.

There are many better off than me and many far worse off. Just the way it goes I guess. But everyone has some kind of struggle.

Just yesterday my daughter used that word, random, when we were talking about MS--my symptoms and progression compared to my dad's, etc.

She said, "I don't know how you can explain MS, it's just so random." I told her, "I think you just did."

My dad was diagnosed in 1957, when he was 39. He voluntarily gave up driving a few years later following an absence seizure (blackout, he called it) and because of issues with his right leg--he was afraid he wouldn't be able to apply the brake quickly enough in an emergency. He never had a second seizure, and if he'd had hand controls for the car, he probably could have kept driving.

He walked the mile each way to work until he retired at 62 (he was a boiler fireman). He mowed the lawn, worked in his wood shop, shoveled snow, invented gadgets. If you didn't know he had MS, you wouldn't have guessed. He had invisible symptoms. He died of COPD just shy of his 80th birthday, and was still going up and down stairs under his own steam three days before he died, though he did use a cane the last couple of years.

However, we always lived under the cloud of "tomorrow morning your father might not be able to get out of bed." I've had MS for maybe 10-12 years. I hope my course is like Dad's. But because it's random, I know tomorrow might be the day I can't get out of bed. MS doesn't play fair. But as nemsmom said, everyone has some kind of struggle.

The thing that scares me is that like you said "tomorrow may be the day I can't get out of bed"

So far so good with me with minor ailments, but I am still fully able, ride bike ect. I do everything they tell me to do, take the meds on schedual and eat well....plus exercise....

Still scary thinking it might hit hard one night though....I try not to think about it.