I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis over 20 years ago, and have been living with MS symptoms for 30 years or more - about half my life. I was about 28 and a single mother with two sons when I had my first sign. It was numbness in my left knee that lasted several weeks, maybe six or eight. When my knee was numb, it lasted only an hour or so at a time, and it wasn’t every day.
One morning at work I noticed my knee was suddenly numb for the first time. That day I was walking to lunch with...
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