So I sat down a few minutes ago to read and enjoy a book I bought a few weeks ago. It is written by Marcia Mueller, and I have enjoyed her books in the past. It is a series that is based on a woman who owns an agency that does investigations (mystery). So I get to the second page and read this sentence,

"His thought flashed back to his first wife, Julie, now many years dead of multiple sclerosis. Toward the end she'd also had been unmoving and silent, but there had been an absence about her, as if her essence had already left her body."

I swear it seems like MS is the popular illness in novels. And whenever someone has MS, they are either dying from it or have died due to MS. TV shows are not any better. Has it always been this way or am I just noticing this trend now?

I will probably pick the book up again. But it is a bit tattered now since I threw it across the room.

Maybe write the author and ask them to research a little more about ms or any disease before their next book?

I guess we notice anything that has to do with MS more now than we did before we knew we had it. Honestly, I don't ever remember hearing about MS or even reading about it before.....but now that I have it I notice it seems like it's everywhere.

I agree with Sandy. I'd write the author and ask if they did any research before writing about it. I'd also let them know how annoying it is for people who don't know about it to make generalized comments and assumptions about it.

I've started saying it before House "check for MS", but it never is. Always something weirder and more interesting.Humph.

Remember when Judge Judy was grilling this poor woman about working? She said "I have collect SSDI" and Judy grilled her! she finally said "I have MS." and JJ said "you look fine to me! you should get a job!" OMG!

As my mother used to say Money and Education dont always buy manners.

Or intelligence!!!