Steve's Disease | The State of Steve's Disease |
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| Written by Clayton | |
| Friday, 21 September 2007 | |
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Steve has Multiple Sclerosis (MS), which is a disease that affects the nerves. You can read more about the actual disease either by visiting the National Multiple Sclerosis Society Website or by clicking here to read about it on Wikipedia . Either way, you’ll learn some of the basic tenants behind the causes of the disease, it’s normal progress, and it’s prognosis. When Steve started dating Teresa, he had already been diagnosed with MS. At that time, his symptoms weren’t very bad (in fact, besides hearing the term MS, most of the time we didn’t even really notice anything different with Steve from anyone else). He seemed symptom free to those of us around him (except for maybe to Teresa and himself) for a long time. He was able to do most things that we did, including play football, basketball, or anything we did. Remembering what he was able to do before makes it much more difficult to see Steve in his current state. It’s hard to believe that just a few short years ago, he was playing basketball with us on a regular basis, and now he’s always in his wheelchair. MS tends to be very unpredictable, and most patients are able to function more or less normally for most of the time. Occasionally patients will have “bouts” of symptoms, followed by improvement to normal or near normal levels of ability. Steve went through these cycles off and on for many years. Then suddenly, his condition deteriorated quickly for whatever reason. Currently, his disease hasn’t seemed to progress as rapidly (but this is from my point of view. I’m not with him daily to see the little nuances of his disease). However, it’s always possible that his disease could start to progress again, further reducing his mobility. |
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