Tuesday, November 15, 2011
I remember sitting at work and calling my mom to tell her what the radiologist had concluded. He wrote in his report that what was causing the numbness in my hands, feet and chest was “most likely Multiple Sclerosis.”
Speaking such a sentence triggered simultaneous sobbing between ...
Hi Dan,
As I read about your dad calling with new treatment options I thought of my mom and Her social network, neighbors, golf club, bridge club, relatives, you know, the kind of social network meeting face-to-face. Her network friends, and they were all friends to her, began finding other people who had been touched by MS, and introducing them to her.
When she told me about treatments her friends talked about, she was always a bit hesitant. i would say skeptical, but she knew I researched them all. The first one she brought me with excitement was the story of her friend whose daughter used an Amigo scooter and just loved it. She could go just anywhere, and it looks like a golf cart. That friend, I'm guessing, was a golf buddy.
It was years before I started using a scooter, and it was an Amigo. She smiled. So did I. It was 18 years before I changed to another power chair.