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How would you see life if something drastic happened to you?

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How would you see life if something drastic happened to you? The MS story continues..... Lately, I have been impressed to ask people just that question, how would you see life if something drastic happened to you? I am talking being diagnosed with an incurable disease or cancer or the such? It is my hypothesis that when a person is thusly diagnosed the things which used to be major headaches become minor irritations! Shortly after I was diagnosed in 2010 with Multiple Sclerosis, my uncle is a scant 8 years older than I am, felt the urge to come from his home in Indianapolis to St Louis: to apologize for his horrid treatment towards me as kids. He was much younger than his siblings, my mother and her sister and other brother, and had almost raised as an only child. I thought about his request for forgiveness to such treatment and this is what I told him. After my relapse, in which I was essentially rendered blind with Nystagmus, unable to walk to Vertigo so severe that it...

The Beginning of Life on the Wheeled Side

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January 6, 2020, I went to the hospital exhibiting the following symptoms: I was blind with Nystagmus,  Vertigo so bad that I could not walk without assistance, and with the Vertigo came severe Nausea... My then girlfriend and her 17 year old son walked me to her car when she came home from work and took me to St Anthony's Hospital in St Louis MO . I sat in the Emergency Room from 10:30pm until 6:30am, since it was Flu Season and I was throwing up, I am assuming that they thought I just had the flu??? Went back to see a doctor and thus began 10 days of testing and a doctor that scared me! She spoke broken english with a Middle Eastern accent, had cross eyes, (so you never knew if she was looking at you?) and kept having me do these strange things like look at her nose and then follow her finger as she moved it up, down, and side to side. (occasionally holding up some fingers and asking how many?) Obviously, she was a WITCH DOCTOR!!! I asked her and the staff to communicate ...