"You have MS."
What?!? That can't be right…seriously?… NO! I'm fine. You're mixing me up with someone else… At least it's not a brain tumor… but what the hell?.. that just can't be right…
That mishmash of thoughts at the time of an MS diagnosis, as with many other serious or chronic diseases, can be so loud and alarming that everything else is shut out. The analogies are endless – you're being sucked into a tornado, sinking to the bottom of the ocean, suffocated under an avalanche. I remember feeling numb, dizzy, confused, and horrified all at once...
(To continue reading, see the article as published by New York Weekly.)