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    Walking Down the Path to Multiple Sclerosis: One Woman's Personal Battle With Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis
    Walking Down the Path to Multiple Sclerosis: One Woman's Personal Battle With Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis
    Walking Down the Path to Multiple Sclerosis: One Woman's Personal Battle With Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis
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    Walking Down the Path to Multiple Sclerosis: One Woman's Personal Battle With Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis

    By Sheril Lee

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    This book is based on the real life story of a woman who has lived with Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis for over thirty years.
    She knows first hand what it's like to see doctor after doctor, month after month, never knowing what is wrong with you, and hoping someone will give you a diagnosis.
    Living with MS can be like riding a wild roller coaster, with its unpredictable ups and downs.
    Read how she took matters into her own hands, after all available medical treatments for her type of Multiple Sclerosis were exhausted.
    Even if you have had MS for years, you might find something in this book that might help you cope a little better.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateAug 24, 2017
    ISBN9781387150441
    Walking Down the Path to Multiple Sclerosis: One Woman's Personal Battle With Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis

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      Walking Down the Path to Multiple Sclerosis - Sheril Lee

      Walking Down the Path

      to Multiple Sclerosis

      One woman's
      personal battle with
      Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis

      Sheril Lee

      1st Edition

      Copyright © 2017 Sheril Lee

      All rights reserved.

      Published by Sheril Lee

      ISBN: 978-1-387-15044-1

      This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike3.0 Unreported License. To view a copy of this license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/

      or send a letter to:

      Creative Commons

      171 Second Street, Suite 300

      San Francisco, California 94105

      USA

      http://www.lulu.com

      ACKNOWLEGEMENTS

      Many thanks to T.J.O. for helping me edit this book, and T. and C. for urging me to tell my story.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any material form, or by any means, electronic or mechanical, or without the written permission of the publisher, Sheril Lee, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in the context of reviews.

      PLEASE NOTE

      This book does not provide medical advice.

      Should you want or need medical help or guidance, please consult your health

      care provider or physician.

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1: Two Close Calls

      Chapter 2: An Urge to Travel

      Chapter 3: My First Symptom

      Chapter 4: ACTH - 21 Days Of Steroids

      Chapter 5: A Turning Point

      Chapter 6: Pneumonia and Shingles

      Chapter 7: What Have I Learned?

      Chapter 8: Other Things I Have Learned

      Chapter 9: Last But Not Least

      Prologue

      This book is a true story based on the life of a woman who has battled Multiple Sclerosis for over thirty years. It is also about the fore-warnings she was given concerning her future with MS, and what would happen to her down the road. Did this insight come from God? Did it come from the universe or a higher power? She does not know. All she knows is that she benefited by paying attention to these premonitions.

      CHAPTER 1

      I was born and raised in Indiana. My mom and dad had three daughters. I was the middle child. My older sister and my little sister were both quiet, reserved children. Then there was me, loud and full of energy. My father called me wiggle butt because I could not sit still. He would sit on a chair and I would climb onto his lap. I would lay my head on his chest and snuggle close to him. Then without warning, I would suddenly raise my head and smack him on the chin. He ended up with two chipped teeth because of me.

      My first experience with the unusual happened when I was two years old. My older sister and I were sitting on the floor. We were rolling a ball between our legs when all of a sudden I turned blue and fell backward onto the floor. Panicked, my mother rushed me to the hospital. Mom must have been doubly scared that day because years ago when she was a young girl, her little sister died at the age of two from meningitis. I was named after my mother's sister. She died when she was two, and I was two when this happened. Luckily I survived. The doctors had no idea why I turned blue and stopped breathing. Why did I survive? God must have had a reason for me to live and to return home to my family.

      When I was 12, I fell down and sprained my right wrist. Being right handed, the sprain made it hard for me to write. My parents weren’t happy with me when I tried writing with my left hand. At first my writing was horrible, but eventually, it became readable. When my wrist was okay, I continued to alternate between my left hand and my right hand. My goal was to be ambidextrous.

      Throughout my life, I switched hands regularly. I bowled right handed, but occasionally I would bowl with my left hand. I dealt cards left-handed, much to the teasing of my younger sister. When I would leap over a puddle, I would push off with my left leg. That’s something a right handed person usually wouldn’t do. They would use their right leg to push off.

      When I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, my right side became my weaker side. Even today my left side is stronger than my right. My left leg and my left arm are currently

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