MS MuSings
a Monthly Online Magazine
By and For Those with MS,
Multiple Sclerosis
May 2008, Issue 104
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MS MuSings a Monthly Online Magazine By and For Those with MS, Multiple Sclerosis May 2008, Issue 104 |
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By Doris Crane My life took a drastic change 25 years ago. I was diagnosed with MS at a time when not much was known about it. I had never heard of it, and at that time there were only me and one other person in Val Verde county with it. I was so very busy with two teen age boys that there wasn't time to think about myself. I went down hard and fast--I couldn't walk. I was in a wheelchair with two boys, president of the PTA, and my husband was a rancher, and I was a ranch hand, cook, maid, chauffer--no way could I handle all this. My doctor gave me massive doses of chemo as an experimental treatment because there was nothing else. Dr. Blessum, the physical therapist, had given me all kinds of range of motion exercises to do which my son was really good about helping me with, but nothing helped. It all seemed so hopeless. My kids were out somewhere, just my husband was in the house. I got the pistol out, and fired a shot, missing myself and hitting the mirror. My husband came running in there, grabbed the pistol away from me, and that's the last I saw of it. Then my husband made me realize that the family needed me. I had MS, but I still had a lot of people that depended on me. I'm glad I didn't give a bad example to my two boys.
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