However, that has not dampened her competitive spirit. She said to herself, “We’ll see what happens, and you’ll manage it bit by bit.”īy 2005, Nathalie’s MS had progressed to the point of needing a wheelchair. So, she decided to stop comparing herself to others with MS. Her neurologist explained that the disease evolves differently for everyone, and her situation might end up being serious or very mild. “That glimpse of the future was direct and traumatic,” she says. However, learning more about the disease-and the realities of disease progression-scared her. “Because when you have signs and you don’t know why, it’s worse than knowing, in the end, what you have.” “Ultimately, the diagnosis was more of a relief, than a shock,” she says. Nathalie was a teenager and a competitive athlete when she noticed her first symptoms of MS, but it would take four years of “limbo” before she was diagnosed. Courtesy of Sanofi Nathalie - Pennes Mirabeau, France (diagnosed with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis in 2002) Nathalie is an award-winning rower with multiple international titles. Gina says that while there’s still a lot of education about MS needed, she feels positive about the future of MS because there’s so much research being done. She’d soon learn she was experiencing optic neuritis-her first symptom of MS. When her youngest son was 4 months old, Gina started having problems with her eye.

Courtesy of Sanofi Gina-Hamburg, Germany (diagnosed with relapsing multiple sclerosis in 2017) Their journeys demonstrate how MS can look different for different people and interestingly, how the language used to talk about the disease can greatly impact how people understand their realities. To better understand what navigating life with MS really looks like, three women shared their MS stories with us. Some people with MS have mild symptoms that worsen slowly but sometimes improve, while others can have severe symptoms that drastically alter their daily lives.Īll people with MS share some things in common, however, such as the need to stay informed on the ever-evolving research, find various lines of support and try to remain hopeful as they continue living with the disease. There’s no set pattern or standard progression of the disease, so each person’s experience is unique. Ironically, the only real constant for people living with MS is change. (DFW too not a small town) /RnWiKQwKB7- FortWorthPlayboy April 24, 2022 Truck with gun racks/rifles in the HS parking lot. Just a large basket of French fries for lunch.- Monique April 24, 2022 Large fry as your entire meal in middle school. 45 years later, I remember the rear view mirror that split a guy's skull, imbedded in his brain.- some call me Tim 🇺🇦 🌻 MAT Elem. This was mostly before mandatory seatbelts. We warched this film, 'Blood on the Highways.' 45 minutes of unedited film of fatal highway accidents. I use this example any time people lament the changes from the “good ole days”.- Matt Parker April 24, 2022Īlso, in Driver's Ed. I have heard stories of country schools in the 50s (which are now urban schools) having boys swim naked in PE (that’s just how they did it in the country).

Hang on, kid! /2DdCoXhqmf- Bluenoser Forever April 24, 2022 zWHh5bvUym- Ed Lettis 🌻 April 24, 2022Ĭar seats that just hung over the front seat. I slept in the back window of the car when the family went on vacation!- CJFuemmeler April 24, 2022

Want to call someone? Need to get picked up from baseball practice? You can’t text mom or dad, you’ll have to grab a quarter and use a pay phone. They don’t allow any of this now, which is good.- High Plains Grifter April 24, 2022 Could also carry large knives and openly chew tobacco in school. It wasn’t unheard of for guys to have a shotgun in a gun rack in their trucks, parked at school. We had Latin as an option and could drop math in Grade 10! Also in the « good old days »: we could smoke in class at Carleton, at the movies and on airplanes.- 🇨🇦Jacques Leger🇺🇸 April 24, 2022 We also had cadet training and a shooting range in the basement of the school. We had a smoking room IN our high school.

We made clay ashtrays as gifts for Mother's Day.whether moms smoked or not!😂- Mark April 24, 2022 We used to tell time by how many cigarettes she had in her ashtray.- rbe April 24, 2022 Also, my biology teacher smoked in the classroom.

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