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imapenny2
Sex: F
Data Quality: 0 stars
MS: 11 yrs
Type: Relapsing-Remitting
Sensation: Moderate
Overall: Mild
Cognition: moderate
Vision: mild
Speech: mild
Swallowing: mild
Upper limb: none
Walking: severe
imapenny2
Female, 52 years
Rochester, IL
Primary Condition
MS
Type
Relapsing-Remitting
First symptom
Diagnosis

About imapenny2

I've been married for 31 yrs We have 3 kids aged 27,25 and 25,and blessed with 3 Grankids. I have had MS since 2004, less than a year later, I was in a wheelchair. . My dad died in 2002, a freak tractor accident. It was very devastating to me.! I had also worked with him for 25yrs in his family business, my husband also worked there,"Family Business" Due to MS, I had to retire. My mother now owns the business, I trained my daughter for my job. TAH-DAH! No more Stress....HA..After 6 yrs of solitary confinement, we live is in the country, I set myself free by ordering TNT handcontrolls.

I have been married for 30 yrs. We have 3 grandchildren, one from each of our children. A son (29) 2 daughters (26 & 20). I am currently in a wheelchair, I can use a walker, but not for long distances. Unfortunetley for me, I went a year 2003 knowing something was wrong.  Then the bottom of my feet started feeling rounded, so lack of balance. I had slept the whole summer away, literally, in 2002. When it became Very apparent I could hardly walk, I was diagnosed and in a wheelchair by 2004. Today the clouds are gone, I am alive, it's time to start living again! I am feeling numb, my spouse of 31 yrs no longer treats me as his equal. I am now looked upon as a burden. I made a promise to myself that 2010 was the year to ACT! I am now driving after 6yrs, looking for a PT job. I'm going thru my things, slowly packing. I need to get away from the negativity, the only emotion my hubby seems to feel. Where do you go, when no else wants you anymore? I'm not 50, yet I feel my life is sooooooo soooooooo Old!

 We live in the Greatest country ever! , you could imagine my surprise when I needed to go grocery shopping, no one would take me. To them it was easier to pick up items on there way home. I started noticing how little I was asked to get out. I was not asked if I would like to go, if we needed to go I felt as if my whole family just gave up on me. But not me.

 
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