I am 49. have been a single parent since 88. I have one daughter, she is in her forth year of nursing school. I have a wonderful Mate who happens to be a chiropractor...how lucky for me...and one of the greatest guy's in the world. I have MS,Crhohns, Mixed connective tissue disease, Asthma,copd, multiple other goop...that is how I describe it "my goop" I stay active and am actually happy....I avoid Meds as much as possible..I have over the last 20 years tried 2 different MS meds..with very bad results... I believe it could always be worse...that does not mean I do not have my down times...