wisesheltiemom's Summary

wisesheltiemom: Sex: F; Data Quality: 1 star; MS: 11 yrs; Type: Relapsing-Remitting; Sensation: Moderate; Overall: Moderate; Cognition: moderate; Vision: moderate; Speech: moderate; Swallowing: mild; Upper limb: moderate; Walking: moderate

wisesheltiemom: Female, 38 years; Greenfield, MA

Primary Condition: MS
Type: Relapsing-Remitting
First symptom: Oct 2000
Diagnosis: Feb 2002

About wisesheltiemom

I have been with my husband for 20years. I have 2 beautiful boys ages 18 and 15. I have many four legged kids 5 shelties, a not so smart rotti, and 5 cats. I was a nurse before becoming homebound. Other things about me I love to garden, and do it when ever I can . We bought a 160 year old house in 2005, and I enjoy watching my husband fix it up, I do help when I can. I have a strong faith in god, and my family. I am a very blunt person, sometimes to blunt. If you have any questions please feel free to ask, and I will do my best to answer them if I cannot I will be honest enough to tell you.

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Member since: Feb 15, 2009 Last Login Sep 15, 2011

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top peanut ready for bed bottom peanut with jello cup stuck on his nose. Yes he is my very spoiled baby and he knows it.

When my MS started I would go to stand up at work and my leg usually the left would be dead. The first time I fell on my face. I was so embarrassed I crawled back to my desk. I had forgotten I got up to go to the bathroom. Needless to say I luckily held it in. Then my intestines desided to get in on the action. It got so bad my youngest who was 4 at the time found me on the bathroom floor Bleeding out. He was smart enough to call 911. At the hospital they said I had perfirated my intestines. The dr. told me I had a flare up of IBS, and that he could repair the small hole and I would be fine. So there I was having a colonoscopy ,and my intestines fix while my 4 year old son sat beside me terrified, and crying. I just started to panic, I thought what the hell first my legs now this. gees I'm 27 and I'm already falling apart , what's going to happen next. Anxiety, so bad I could not even get out of bed for 6 months. all I did was cry. I thought I was loosing my mind. Thank god my mom knew what a panic attack was. She saved me there. Then came the fateful day of my MRI. Ok I'm clasterphobic so for me it was like being burrried alive. But I hung in there and got it done. I love my happy place. Beautiful fields of lavender with tons of butterflies...ahhhh. 2 weeks later at my drs office with the whole family in tow. She comes in and says I have bad news and really bad news. the really bad news is you have cervical cancer, the bad news is you have MS( She is no longer my dr. ). I heard nothing after that. I ran the next day to my GYN, and hey I did not have cervical cancer, I had a cyst. OMG I wanted to kill my DR. Instead I fired her. My nerologist at the time was cool he sat me down offered me a stiff drink. I was his very last patient ever, and he was kidding sorta. He did that test oh I forgot what it is call damn it. The one with the checkerboard and the electroids on your head. Crap what is it called I hate when my brain does this. Anyhow he said all the things I was going through were all connected and that it was MS. I have tried 15 different meds all of with I had a really bad reacton to. Currently I have a crappy pcp, and am in search of a neurologist, and on no meds . The problem I have is that I am homebound and need the drs to come to me. There has to be someone out there that does it. I will find them, and won't stop until I do. That's my story. I have learned over the years that I have MS but MS does not have me. I may have to change how I do things but that does not mean that I cannot do them.Life is an adventure and I plan on having the best adventure I can.

This is my pride, joy and laughter. From left to right Justin , Jack,Jasmin(rotti), Millie, Tyler , Leah, Peanut, And Shylo ( Jack, Leah , and Peanuts mama)