I Have A Parent With Multiple Sclerosis

My mum has MS, she was diagnosed before I was born – over 30 years ago. I just grew up with it and not knowing any different. It was just always there. When I was little she was so determined to be positive and beat it. She went...

Blessed is the only word for it.  MS is such a confusing and mysterious disease...
My mother is now 74 (and if she knew I was broadcasting that on here she would KILL me!).  When she was 20, and in Nursing School at the...

My mom struggles with ms everyday I try my most to help her but I wish I didn't have to see her cry in pain every day.. It's so hard to keep a smile on my face around her because it's so sad how she cant lift her leg or arm but she...

My mom was diagnosed with MS when I was about 8 or 9 years old. After her diagnosis she went through a really hard time (divorced my Dad and attempted to start dating again). Through all of this her health slowly deteriorated from...

I’m very worried about my two daughters getting this terrible terrible disease although the data is not out there whether or not MS is hereditary or not ..There has been studies but nothing conclusive.
My wife and I have been together...

I have a parent with Multiple Sclerosis who is in the secondary progressive phase.  He fights it everyday like a champ and pushes forward despite his daily struggles.  I am caught in a very tough place though - he and my...

I hated him living with us. Ever since I can remember he was sat predominantly in his wheelchair, scowling, yelling at everyone, getting annoyed at everything and, as I was so young ( 6 years old ) I was not told this until recently but...

All of my life I remember my mum having multiple sclerosis (I've lived with my gran since I was eighteen months old). She never seemed to let it get her down though, and her smile could light up a room. She never liked it...

My dad was just diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. He is 46 years old, and a recovering alcoholic to boot, who has battled anxiety and depression most of his life. He began having numbness, pain, and tingling in his back, arms and legs...

My mother was diagnosed with MS at age 27 or 6 weeks after I was born. She probably had it for several years before. I am now 37, so she has lived with MS for almost 40 years.

When I was growing up, my mom's MS was relapsing...