'I'm sharing my story so others can see that you don't have to be defined by your disease or diagnosis. I want others to feel hope – and I want people to see that it is possible to flourish and thrive with multiplesclerosis .' MotherlyMedia MS
I distinctly remember being in the children's shoe section at Target when the doctors called me with my MRI results. They found 8 to 10 lesions in my brain, including one active lesion on my right optic nerve that was causing my vision issues. This was looking more and more like MS, yet they still needed more tests to make a full diagnosis. Even though I'd somewhat mentally prepared myself for a serious diagnosis like MS, I was emotionally rocked to my core.
My friend and former colleague said to me,"I have never known you to be anything than aggressive at everything you do in life. I hope that MS hasn't already changed you." And that decided it for me. I chose to take the aggressive meds and I was lucky that my health insurance covered it and my doctors supported my decision.
I am now flourishing. I have no disease progression and my vision is back to 20/20 with my contacts. I continue to do an MRI yearly as part of a study that I'm in. I have minor, nearly undetectable weakness in my hand and foot on my dominant side, but I like to say this just makes me more balanced!
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