A Letter to MS

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A Letter to MS

Dear MS,

I'm not sure if that greeting is appropriate because you are not dear to me, you were an unexpected and unwelcome visitor that has turned up but sadly you will never leave.  The day I found out you were coming to stay is a day I  will never forget, that is only if you permit my memory to serve me for years to come but I guess it is for that reason why I have chosen to write this.  It was on that day, the 4th of April 2013, that I was told about how you were residing in my brain and on my spinal cord in the form of several lesions.  When I saw you for the first time I knew you were the reason for my stumbling, falling, pins and needles, numbness and vertigo.  I was so mad at you.  Why did you have to come and stay with me?  

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Being a Nurse with MS

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Being a Nurse with MS

People would assume that being a nurse I know everything there is to know about MS,   truth be told I know just about as much as any other person who was just diagnosed with MS.  The only difference in the beginning was that I had a basic knowledge of MS and it wasn't the warm and fuzzy type of knowledge.  Before I even went to my appointment with my GP I knew what the results said.  I was a typical nosey nurse and got a copy of my MRI results and had a read and I came across the words 'lesion' and 'demyelination' so i knew it was MS.  There is some irony I have found with being diagnosed with MS and that is in my final year at University I did a presentation about Multiple Sclerosis, little did I know is that I was researching what my life would one day be.   

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