Suicide and MS

Suicide and MS

This is a blog by Jennifer Digmann, she felt inspired and encouraged by my recent blog on Euthanasia  to create the dialogue needed for such a post by using her own personal experiences and views.  It features a real life article on a woman who takes her life after living with MS for almost 40 years and Jennifer talks about her views on suicide and MS.

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Being a Nurse with MS

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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