Hello All,
My name is JP, and I'm a thirty-five year old caucasian male living in Northern Virginia. I was diagnosed with MS four years ago, which was amusing to me (at the time...less so now, go figure) because I had simply assumed that all of the neurological decline that I had been going through had been from a decade of trafficking and using Crystal Meth (not to worry, all: I've been clean since July, 2005, and will remain so).
In any event, I was used to strange spasms and half-seizures from my drug days (although, a wise friend of mine from the medical side of things says that he thinks that my increased use in the last couple of years that I was using was me self-medicating against MS symptoms and not really realizing it...not a justification for the drug-use, of course, but an interesting thought about how we're built, and how we'll intuitively try to compensate for the bad things we can subconsciously tell are going on), but the day that my left eye blew out like a candle, I went to see the doc.
Shortly thereafter, a diagnosis of MS, and shortly after that, conclusive proof of it.
So...bringing us back to now: I'm under care at George Washington University Medical Group (and not happy about it), I'm a divorced father of three, my friends and family are understanding about what I'm going through, and work, of course, doesn't know (except for a few key people).
I'll read the other sections of the board, and comment, and I'll certainly have questions, as while the care at GW is touted as one of the best in the world (and they may be, scientifically speaking), I find that they lack any and all compassion for THE PERSON, and are interested solely in the disease.
I'm pleased to meet you all, and I'm pleased to be here.
Thanks.
--JP
My name is JP, and I'm a thirty-five year old caucasian male living in Northern Virginia. I was diagnosed with MS four years ago, which was amusing to me (at the time...less so now, go figure) because I had simply assumed that all of the neurological decline that I had been going through had been from a decade of trafficking and using Crystal Meth (not to worry, all: I've been clean since July, 2005, and will remain so).
In any event, I was used to strange spasms and half-seizures from my drug days (although, a wise friend of mine from the medical side of things says that he thinks that my increased use in the last couple of years that I was using was me self-medicating against MS symptoms and not really realizing it...not a justification for the drug-use, of course, but an interesting thought about how we're built, and how we'll intuitively try to compensate for the bad things we can subconsciously tell are going on), but the day that my left eye blew out like a candle, I went to see the doc.
Shortly thereafter, a diagnosis of MS, and shortly after that, conclusive proof of it.
So...bringing us back to now: I'm under care at George Washington University Medical Group (and not happy about it), I'm a divorced father of three, my friends and family are understanding about what I'm going through, and work, of course, doesn't know (except for a few key people).
I'll read the other sections of the board, and comment, and I'll certainly have questions, as while the care at GW is touted as one of the best in the world (and they may be, scientifically speaking), I find that they lack any and all compassion for THE PERSON, and are interested solely in the disease.
I'm pleased to meet you all, and I'm pleased to be here.
Thanks.
--JP
"...the joy of the Lord is your (my) strength." Nehemiah 8:10
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