I worked so hard all my life in the comercial fishing busness with my dad and off seasons in construction. People would say he's going to kill himself.Really though, I don't think hard work hurt anybody but maybey I was a little too extreme. My dad passed in 02 and in 03 I fufilled my dream of having a new boat built, to the tune of 397.000 $. I thought at the age of 45 I would still have enough time to work hard for another 10 years and pay it off. After two years of fishing like crazy, never home, winter and summer, sometimes 150 miles out, I started to develope some problems.
Going to the bathroom all the time, horrible migrains, I thought I must be getting carple tunnel in my left hand, work was becoming dificult, I started kind of dragging my left leg, blaming it on my boots, that I would never complain about because my wife bought them for me. Time to throw it in netrel and finally take the time to go to the docter and get fixed up! BOY was I in for a surprise ! "Sorry man, you have got multipul sclerosis, thers no cure". Well it has been a rough ride ever since.I managed to get a good fellow to take the boat while I sorted things out for a little. I took back over for a year or so but it just got so hard. I have him fulltime now and between us we make it work.
I started a regeme of acupucture, wich I still do to this day , still work in the construction, heavy equipment, and went to Poland for the ccsvi procedure. My dx is ppm.which everybody knows just gets worse and worse or so it seems. Poland was a little over two years ago and I had some improvment, since then my back finnally completly gave out and i have been over a year getting able to do physical work again. I'm 53 now and still at it . I'm very stubbern, which I feel works in my favour with this dieses, so im not ready to give in all together and I was "luckey'' that it didn't come on earlier in life.
Really though looking back with my doctor my first symptoms apeared 10 years before my dx so its been with me for at least 17 or 18 years now. Unfortunatly were all in this together, or maybey its fortunatly good that we have people just like ourselves to go through it with .
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Going to the bathroom all the time, horrible migrains, I thought I must be getting carple tunnel in my left hand, work was becoming dificult, I started kind of dragging my left leg, blaming it on my boots, that I would never complain about because my wife bought them for me. Time to throw it in netrel and finally take the time to go to the docter and get fixed up! BOY was I in for a surprise ! "Sorry man, you have got multipul sclerosis, thers no cure". Well it has been a rough ride ever since.I managed to get a good fellow to take the boat while I sorted things out for a little. I took back over for a year or so but it just got so hard. I have him fulltime now and between us we make it work.
I started a regeme of acupucture, wich I still do to this day , still work in the construction, heavy equipment, and went to Poland for the ccsvi procedure. My dx is ppm.which everybody knows just gets worse and worse or so it seems. Poland was a little over two years ago and I had some improvment, since then my back finnally completly gave out and i have been over a year getting able to do physical work again. I'm 53 now and still at it . I'm very stubbern, which I feel works in my favour with this dieses, so im not ready to give in all together and I was "luckey'' that it didn't come on earlier in life.
Really though looking back with my doctor my first symptoms apeared 10 years before my dx so its been with me for at least 17 or 18 years now. Unfortunatly were all in this together, or maybey its fortunatly good that we have people just like ourselves to go through it with .
** Moderator's note - Post broken into paragraphs for easier reading. Many people with MS have visual difficulties that prevent them from reading large blocks of print. **
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