good morning Mistic, saying congrats on DX seems an odd thing to do, but knowing what you have going on with yourself and having a name to it does help in some regards. Allows you to get some help, possibly meds, there are a lot of new meds that can help slow it down.

I understand your worries of folks scattering like the wind, i would say it depends on how badly the MS was interfering with my life,

I can say one thing on here you can always find advice and some information and some really wonderful folks on here. A number of them have become my friends.

I hope you are doing well, I'm not sure if anything I said will help, I read your post and I am not that far from with my MS as to where you are now in life with MS. I still recall those questions i didn't know what to do, sure wish I knew of the chat boards that first year, with all the support and help you can receive here, this is a good place to be when you are so unsure or in doubt or questioning things, its a good place to start.

hope you feel better soon, and you are able to figure some of this out,