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Life with Multiple Sclerosis is sometimes a nightmare - always struggling control bladder functions, sometimes struggling to comprehend what people are saying and constantly feeling exhausted. There are sometimes pains in legs but for the most part, comprehending is what I struggle with the most. These are things that people with M.S. deal with most of the time; vision, speech, and suicide.

Battling with Multiple Sclerosis what most people don’t understand. Some people say, “ I battle with this also.  How could others compare what I go through with a healthy body?  That is not right. Life has thrown its darts to me in life and I am always trying to recovery. I am thirty-one year wife with and student with a ten year old son and I have a one year old daughter. I am fun loving and a children church teacher at New Direction Community of Love Church.

In April of 2007 I was having some physical challenges in my life. On a perfectly normal day I felt a pain in my leg.  I got up and tried to walk and I started limping. I just thought that I had a Charlie hoarse in my leg. I was working at Wal-Mart as a cashier at the time. People made fun of me but I paid it no attention.  I hid it from my manager’s well. As time went on challenges in my life grew harder to deal with. One day I attempted suicide  and my pastor found me in my house and sent me to Ben Taube Emergency room. I was sent home with some depression meds.  I took them for a week and ended back in the hospital for my slur speech, unable to walk correctly, and writing. The doctors kept me in the hospital to run test with a CT scan and MRI.  Three weeks later they diagnosed me with Multiple Sclerosis.

I was sent home and had flare up every once in a while. On Monday November 15, 2010 I was admitted to Bend Taube hospital because of M.S. flair up with my left leg. The doctors did many tests of my thyroids to find out why I was so tired. The doctors also did a MRI on my head and my spine. While they test I received an injection of steroids to help me straighten out my left leg. Before I left the doctor came to see did I get my strength back in my legs and told me that my M.S. is in remission.  The doctors wrote me a prescription for a steroid pill.

            While I was at the hospital I woke up to an article named, “Deb Tasic Stops Multiple Sclerosis.” This article moved me to look up the Dr. Mcdougall health website to find out what else could I do to get over this horrific disease. To my surprise this website talks about what I already started to do. It taught more about eating healthier with a low-fat diet therapy developed by Dr. Roy Swank. I am now even more moved to move on with my life and live for me and my family.

            With My struggles I find it hard to get along with people. Even though I am fighting this on daily basics I refuse to give up on school. I am going to graduate Houston Community College and I will defeat this disease. The only way I know to finish this race is with a go get it attitude and positive thinking. Believe anything and everything is positive.