Hi, my name is Mary, and I'm now 52 years old. I was diagnosed with MS on November 19, 1999. Since that fateful day, life has changed drastically. From graduating college the semester after I was diagnosed, to not being able to use my degree to teach since I went downhill so fast. To my body turning on me, my husband leaving me because he couldn't deal with the MonSter. To being paralyzed over and over again and fighting back, to being displaced from Hurricane Katrina. But you know what, life may not be what I thought it would, but it is what it is. So I enjoy what I have.