To all of you who are suffering through the "ifs and maybes" of this bloody disease, my goes out to you. I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers.

I know what you're all feeling. And my heart goes out to you.

But don't panic until you need to.

A few years back, my son (he was 23-24 years old at the time) called me and said he went to the doctor because his hand was numb. So numb in fact, he was having problems using his hand, picking things up, typing. The doctor was sending him to a neurologist. How long had it been numb?? Uhm, about two months, he said. TWO MONTHS??!!!

I got off the phone, and turned to my husband. I started to cry. Jon's hand and forearm have been numb for two months. He's being referred to a neuro! HE HAS MS!!!

IT'S MY FAULT!!! I gave my baby MS!!

Jump ahead a couple of months. It turned out he had a lipoma (fatty tumor) that was growing on a nerve in his forearm (they are common in our family) which was causing his arm and hand to go go numb.

In a 40 minute outpatient surgery, the lipoma was removed and after sufficient healing time he was as good as new. The numbness was gone and he had complete use of his hand.

Now, I don't mean to belittle your son's symptoms or to tell you that you don't have any right to worry...you are MOMs, of course you have every right to worry...but don't worry about MS until you know it's MS.

There are many things it COULD be. Many so much better than MS...and some much worse. But because we HAVE MS, and we dont really know about all of the other things...the first things we think of IS MS.

Warm wishes to every one out there with a child (no matter how old) having any kind of health problems.

(((hugs))) and prayers, i feel your pain

Please keep us updated

That is my biggest concern. If he does have something neurological I'm going to beat myself up over it.

I wouldn't even drink a carbonated drink while I was pregnant - no caffeine, no sugar. I did everything I could to remain healthy and give my babies every chance at being born healthy - and they both were. Big babies, too. 9 and 10.5 pounds.

Logically, I know this could happen even if I didn't have MS. But I'm a Mom - logical thinking is out the window!!

As a mom, yes we do worry about the possibility. One thing I have to tell Jim when he starts to worry if one of our boys acquires ms is this: HE IS NOT AT FAULT. It's not like we went out and picked up ms because we did too many drugs or drank too much or whatever. It's not like we could have did any genetic testing at the time to tell us their chances if one of us got sick. It will never be anyone's fault if our children get sick. I would never blame Jim if one of our boys got ms. It's a mystery.

Let's all try to remember that and pray for the best in our children. Beating ourselves up does no good in the end. We don't even know 100% sure if ms is genetic or if it's environmental or what the dang thing is. Cancer runs in my family and I would say half of them are convinced we will die from cancer. No one knows but the big guy in the sky right? Right?

First off - Sassy, I hope your son is doing better. Did he ever go to the doctor to get his symptoms checked?

My son had his appointment on 4/4 - he went and they took blood and told him they'd call him on Monday or Tuesday with the results of that test. His insurance doesn't require a referral so they said that he should go ahead and make an appointment with the Neurologist.

He's going to use the one I go to. I have to make an appointment for myself, too, so I'm going to try and see if we can be seen on the same day (back to back) so I can be there, too.

I'm trying not to worry about it - because it is what it is. Worrying isn't going to help. I've said a lot of prayers, though.

I'll keep you posted! Never a dull moment in my world..........