Perspective

Since being Dx'ed I have taken time to reflect on how MS effects it's unwilling participants. Scattered is the term I will use. Everyone is different, symptoms, lesions,disabilities, pain level if any, range from none to the extreme. At the present time there are four levels of MS, which can be a sticking point of progression and treatment therapies.

Doctors classifications verses Insurance companies acceptance of allowable coverage, and co pays that stifle the common humans ability to wonder what humanity is all about. It seems that everyone is concerned about your health, just as long as you can pay! I understand R&D, money spent to develop drugs, but the profits of Drug Companies say otherwise, your sickness is their benefit.

As of my Dx, I am fortunate to be able to walk and drive, with a longstanding problem with my right leg and it's abilities to function properly. Drop foot doesn't help and I have become accustomed to stumbling, and as they say "bouncing off of walls", I expect this is due to an ever changing gait, as each day the leg acts differently in strength, and coordination. I have other Sx's, but they are mild compared to many who are affected by MS.

I have yet decided on a medication if any, as I am waiting to see my Cardiologist and discuss the drug therapy I am considering, which could affect another health deformity I am plagued with. I am commonly known in the heart community as an "Afibber". That's a short name of Atrial Fibrillation, and is triggered by several means and highly contested as to what those triggers are. Afib is an irregular heart beat and I am known as a "Lone Affiber" which means that my heart always returns back to normal sinus rhythm on it's own, without drugs or electrocardioversion.

Progression of my illness is unknown. No new lesions as of March. Drug therapy to be determined as soon as possible, but the state of an uncertain economy, and reactions to those therapies, could determine what happens in the near future. I am prepared for an uncertain future, as much as one can be in this circumstance. I was always concerned with the Afib, and now things have changed. I have always been flexible and have adjusted well to life's changes, and the test has just been elevated to a new level...