A friend of mine sent me a message on FB about this lady and said I should Google her. As it turns out she plans to run 366 marathons in 365 days. She plans on doing this while have a diagnosis of in 2009. She says and I quote "I would also like to provide evidence that, even with a diagnosis (Multiple Sclerosis in my case), people shouldn’t be held back from living life to its fullest and fulfilling ones dreams."
She goes on to say to say "Three years ago, I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and today I have – without any medication – no problems or symptoms of MS. I believe that running marathons has played a large role in the fact that I am healthy today." IMO she is somewhat misleading. By that I mean she fails to mention that MS affects everyone differently and not everyone with MS may be able to accomplish such a feat. Now with that said I can say that I have started the new drug "Tecfidera" and after being on it now for 3 months I able to accomplish some things that was not able to earlier. However, I do have a breaking a point. I now able to walk without an aid and I am able to get out and do some work in beds which I dearly love to do. But as I said earlier I can still over do it and when I do I pay a healthy price.
I admire Ms. Annette for her rather ambitious goal but I feel she should have expounded a little more on MS. By not doing so she gives the impression that People living with MS should be able to do more that what they say they can. For example my friend that sent the message says and I quote "She had MS and credits the marathons to her not having MS anymore." That's the impression she is leaving to the average lay person that the marathons healed her.
I don't know maybe it is just me but I think she was misleading and should have been a bit more forthcoming about MS. Any thoughts from my fellow MS'ers?
She goes on to say to say "Three years ago, I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and today I have – without any medication – no problems or symptoms of MS. I believe that running marathons has played a large role in the fact that I am healthy today." IMO she is somewhat misleading. By that I mean she fails to mention that MS affects everyone differently and not everyone with MS may be able to accomplish such a feat. Now with that said I can say that I have started the new drug "Tecfidera" and after being on it now for 3 months I able to accomplish some things that was not able to earlier. However, I do have a breaking a point. I now able to walk without an aid and I am able to get out and do some work in beds which I dearly love to do. But as I said earlier I can still over do it and when I do I pay a healthy price.
I admire Ms. Annette for her rather ambitious goal but I feel she should have expounded a little more on MS. By not doing so she gives the impression that People living with MS should be able to do more that what they say they can. For example my friend that sent the message says and I quote "She had MS and credits the marathons to her not having MS anymore." That's the impression she is leaving to the average lay person that the marathons healed her.
I don't know maybe it is just me but I think she was misleading and should have been a bit more forthcoming about MS. Any thoughts from my fellow MS'ers?
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