Beginning symptoms
2004
Standing in a friends backyard I kept
feeling like I was going to fall backwards. I leaned against the
fence and we laughed how how weird it was I was feeling that way and
we joked it must be because in the pavement covered city of San
Francisco I was used to walking on pavement and not standing on
grass. I didn't know I had M.S.
2008
One day I couldn't move my left arm
which was a problem since I was a massage therapist and needed both
arms to do my job. I thought it was related to being car doored when
riding my bicycle in 2004 which tore my left anterior Deltoid muscle.
Physical therapy helped me get back to
my career then but it didn't help in 2008 when I was living in
Oakland, CA. Actually I was told by an aware physical therapist I
failed physical therapy and he said there was probably something
nerve related going on. By this time I needed help getting dressed
and cooking and opening my Advil bottle. I told the doctors. They
told me to take Advil every 4 hours it will get better eventually.
My neck hurt and when my girlfriend
massaged it I asked her to press as hard on the left side as the
right side. She said she was, I couldn't feel it. I told the Doc; he
didn't think anything of it.
2009
Then I started walking into walls. I
would pick up my left foot and my mind would think I was going to
walk forward but my foot would go to the side and I'd crash into the
wall. Reaching for something was similar like reaching for a CD my
hand would go to the side to another CD even though I was looking and
mentally intending to reach for where I was looking. Also the fatigue
began, sometimes sleeping many hours during the day, I wasn't
depressed just tired. Doc didn't think anything about my fatigue,
walking into walls, unable to pick up things I was looking at, neck
hurting and not feeling the pressure on my left side of my neck. Nope
just take the Advil, it will get better eventually.
Then when sitting with a neurologist
looking at a MRI of my neck and shoulder I noticed a little white dot
on my neck and pointed it out. He didn't think anything of it!!!!
HELLO THAT IS M.S.!!!! He is a Orthro neurologist. I have learned
that specialized medicine is very DANGEROUS!
2011
So M.S.
continued to eat my body and I wasn't diagnosed until 2011. Now M.S.
has taken so much I can't work full time or make enough to live on
even with S.S.D.I. so I'm struggling looking for a part time job I
can do with my M.S. fatigue and changed concentration abilities.
Specialized
medical areas NEED to understand the FULL body not just their area.
This is my call to us M.S.ers to ask to have proper fully trained
doctors in all areas even in county hospitals and everywhere.
The body is ONE
COMPLETE UNIT and must be understood. It does no good to have people
deteriorate when there is a way to catch problems and keep people
able to live their full potential.
A healthy nation
and world is one of compassion and full health for all! Not just
about medical cost and pharmaceutical companies.
Look how much of
their money, if that's all they care about, could have been saved as
well as my anguish and pain and loss of life abilities at a young
working age of 40, if all were educated completely about M.S. I had
enough M.S. symptoms they should have seen the signs and looked into
it and clarified M.S. and save me and their money.
This is what I
call for-- M.S. Education and Recognition in ALL departments and
hospitals! Catching and halting M.S. and all diseases! As it is better for
ALL PEOPLE AND BUSINESSES!
