MS? No problem!
Well, here's another fantastic example of how stunningly little we really know about how our bodies really work.
MS covers a whole family of specific diseases, do you have any specifics on it?
Because things like Lou Gehrig's Disease aka ALS aka Amyotrophic Lateral Schlerosis; even Polio aka Poliomyelitis fall in the same family; even though they are of course, quite different in effects.
Here's the weird things; people think there is something wrong with the nerves, and it not the actual nerve. The long part of a nerve [axon] has a 'sheath' covering of Myelin.
The person who can figure out why the Myelin around the nerves degenerates and harden, and why it affects mostly the Central Nervous System [hence the difficulty in your leg and eye] while often sparing the peripheral nerves? They will become one of my Gods.
Jonas Salk is a God to me. between him and Sabin they nailed the fucker. Nailed Polio to the fucking wall. I mean this was a triumph that had people like me dancing in the streets.
Before the sub-thread starts on the harm done, the people who caught polio due to the immunizations, and current debat on the topic let me say this. The reason half of us are walking is because of the vaccines. We sent Polio down the fucking stairs; yes this pisses me off, because it's making a comeback, but immunization in this century, almost completely irradicated a disease that crippled and took the lives of untold numbers. I'm guessing some here never heard of an Iron Lung. My mother worked them as an RN. She was there, giving the immunizations as the cameras fired and made some Newark paper I have somewhere.
There is a mountain somewhere made up of iron lungs and cruthes. And Salk stands on top of that mountain.
Sheesh, I get a little crazy.
But here we have what seems a simple thing. The Myelin Sheath around the nerves start to show lesions, and hardening. Figure out how to stop that, or reverse, it, and I will run naked through the streets kissing everyone i see until i'm locked away.
People with MS run the gamut. Seems to me you are doing just fine. My friend Kim found she had it when she was around 25. I can't even fucking imagine getting that call. You're stronger then me that's for sure.
As for being carried? If a person can't carry another human being that needs assistance, that person is not a human being.
You may think you have a handicap. That's probably because: You have a Handicap.
Welcome to the world of Misfit People. We ALL have handicaps. Some, for some reason, are looked down upon, and others are actually admired.
Who was the Yankee pitcher who threw that no-hitter?? Shit I'm blanking, but he threw a fucking no-hitter in Pinstripes. Put ya in the Books, baby.
Of yeah; he only has one hand. Watching him pitch; how can ANYone say he has a handicap?
Well he does, and we all do, and Nature is Cruel. But Fair. So we do the best we can.
And know this folks; irrespective of what you might think about it, even if you completely oppose it, fine. But every single solitary one of us has benefited enormously from the testing on Mammals, Primates, and yes, even humans, of an entire slew of vaccines for an entire slew of diseases that all we will ever know of is reading about them somewhere.
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