PatientsLikeMe : Rick N's MS Profile

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Status: Member since: 11/08; Last updated: 10/31/09; Last login: 10/31/09

Rick N: Sex: M; Data Quality: 3 stars; MS: 21 yrs; Primary Progressive; Sensation: Severe; Overall: Severe; Cognition: severe; Vision: moderate; Speech: severe; Swallowing: moderate; Upper limb: moderate; Walking: severe; See profile

Rick N: Male, 55 years; Jefferson City, MO

Diagnosis: Onset: Sensory Changes; First symptom: 09/88; Diagnosis: 06/92

Profile Activity: 382 Views

About Me: I love to work with wood and after my diagnosis, I attended a school for a Master Woodworker Degree. I hope to start my own school to pass along the trade. I have been married for 23 yrs to a wonderful woman and we have two children in college. I lost my legs about a year ago but have a "Quickie" wheelchair now and I dream of competing in the parapalegic Olympics. I face the challenges of MS head-on each day and consider it more of a blessing than a hardship. After so many years with this disease, the values in life that I once thought were important are not. I live on Faith and Hope. And Win.

MS Condition

MSRS: 85 (latest: 09/19/09)