In the last installment, I wrote a bit about how Mandy began to exhibit physical symptoms which, of course, would eventually be diagnosed as MS. My purpose in taking you through the process of MS... from initial symptoms to eventual diagnosis is simple -- I want you to buy into the life. I want you to consider, on a gut level, not my life, but yours... and how it can be turned completely inside out when either you or someone you love says simply, “Hmm, my arm feels funny.”
In the last...
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Multiple Sclerosis: Diagnosis
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Multiple Sclerosis: Complications
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