| This is the story of a ham and egger. A close friend | | | | politically correct world but back then it was OK. I |
| of mine uses that term quite often and his definition | | | | myself was diagnosed at the age of 33. It's ironic |
| of a ham and egger is someone who's out in the real | | | | that I now have the disease and I can still remember |
| world grunting out a living. I wish I could say I'm rich | | | | that commercial 40 years ago.MS is a very humbling |
| and famous but I'm not. I'm just like 90% of the | | | | disease. When a man has to buy his first pair of |
| population out there grunting out a living with one | | | | Depends underwear at the age of 47 you are |
| exception. In 1991 I was diagnosed with Multiple | | | | HUMBLED! Believe me your ARE humbled. My friend |
| Sclerosis. It's hard to believe it's been 14 years | | | | Eric was going into Fargo one day and I asked him to |
| already. I love to talk and when you're reading this if | | | | pick me up a bag of Depends just to see what he |
| it seems like I'm rambling from one topic to another I | | | | would say. He's 39, laughed, and said "no thanks, I |
| probably am. That's a part of my MS called | | | | can't do that! I gave him some grief and then laughed |
| disinhibition.I love to have fun and I've been told I | | | | with him. When your 4-year old can run faster than |
| have a great personality. I'm very honest and | | | | you you're humbled. People with diseases like MS just |
| trustworthy. I would give the shirt off my back to | | | | have to adjust their lives accordingly.When I finally |
| someone that needed it. Next summer will be 15 | | | | went in to see a neurologist in 1991 I was unsure |
| years since my diagnosis and I'm still out there | | | | what the heck was wrong with me. I had eyesight |
| grunting! At times I get down but I don't stay that | | | | problems, numbness and tingling all over my body, I |
| way very long. There is so much to do in life. If you | | | | was having trouble urinating, I wasn't sleeping too |
| can get over the fact that you're going to be doing | | | | well, I had a slight limp and a myriad of other |
| those things sitting down helps you accept your | | | | problems happening to my body. What could be |
| disease. In my ebook I want to explain MS some of | | | | wrong with me I asked? It had taken me a year to |
| my MS symptoms. I also want to tell you about a | | | | get in to see an eye doctor and it would be another |
| new business that I just started on the internet. It's | | | | 3-6 months before I finally had the diagnosis I was |
| very inexpensive to get started and although I'm | | | | looking for. Believe it or not by the end I was actually |
| going to market it to everyone I'm especially going | | | | relieved that I had MS! I didn't know what course it |
| to target it towards disabled people.I'm 47 now and I | | | | would take but at least I had a name for all my |
| can trace my symptons back to at least 1980. I've | | | | symptoms. I also knew that I didn't have a stroke, |
| had this disease in my body for half of my life. I | | | | cancer, ALS, or any other major problem. I had been |
| remember when I was a little boy growing up in | | | | on a roller coaster ride for over a year wondering |
| Rochester, Minnesota. A commercial on TV (this was | | | | what was wrong but now I knew!Jon Wegner is a |
| the 60's) showed people in wheelchairs with the tag | | | | lifelong Minnesota resident who now lives in Fargo, |
| line, "MS, the crippler of young adults". I don't think | | | | North Dakota. |
| that tag line would work well these days in our | | | | |