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