Murphy
- I have heard many, many, many dumb remarks! One was well you'll be OK. You just may need a cane now and then. Another favorite of mine: I was once asked why my arms and legs weren't all twisted up, and how it was that I could still walk?
- —Guest Murphy
Don't Tell !
- Zora Neale Hurston says,"You have to go there to know there." My experiences with especially my sister has cemented my feeling that people don't want to know because it is a burden for them. At work, if you tell, then it may be assumed that you want special considerations. MS is my (your)burden. Just do whatever it takes for you to function, and ignore any comments. You have to be strong and 'Endeavor to Persevere'.
- —InletGirl
Doctor Who?
- Upon finding out that I had been diagnosed with MS my daughter's pediatrician first asked "Are you sure that you have MS?", "Did you get a second opinion?", and when I told it was a "fure sure diagnosis she said "Well, MS really just tends to be more of an annoyence than anything else for people."... I didn't know how to respond without blowing up at her, so I didn't say anything, but that was the last visit to that pediatrician. I don't need to take my child to a doctor that thinks that MS is just an "annoyance more than anything" for people.... I never expected such an ignorant comment from a Doctor.
- —Guest Sandra
i hate when people use the word retard
- as in " stupid is as stupid does" comment. It is offensive when used in that context. How would you like someone being so inconsiderate about M.S. which by the way I have... and a little girl who happens to have mental retardation aka developmental delay. Just like we are people who happen to have M.S.
- —Guest tbella
That is just a sign of getting older
- A lady told me I looked fine how does MS effect you? When I told her about the fatigue and cognative she told me "everyone gets that way as we age." She had no idea ! I just walked away wondering how anyone will ever understand........
- —coyotelnds
50/50 chance
- on telling my sister about my diagnosis she said your sister (who recently recovered from cancer) has a 50/50 chance of the cancer returning, count yourself lucky
- —Guest lesley
You were always lazy!
- So, they say it is MS. That doesn't give you the right to avoid working and housework. You always have an excuse!" said by my loving mother after learning of my diagnosis.
- —Guest JERMS
Is it contagious?
- Yep, I have been asked that and "Are you on antibiotics?" If I mention I also have FIbromyalgia, then a light bulb kinda goes off, and if I try to explain the difference, well - you know what a deer looks like in headlights?
- —janster51
On the Ninth Hole
- Let me first say that I love my boss. We have similar personalities and deal with hardship by laughing. So two months after dx, we go golfing. As we approach the green he looks at me with concern. "You're not gonna like die are you?" he says. I still laugh with him about it today, three years later. Tied for stupidest... My father at the MS Walk 2008, "Do they give different colored shirts to everyone who has MS? No dad, everyone who raises more than $2000 gets a different shirt." Thats one he will never live down.
- —Guest Matt Silvia
What does MS look like?
- Had a medicalprocedure recently. When asked by the nurse if I had any medical problems I answered honestly (rarely admit to MS).The nurse said "you do not look like you have MS. I expect that response from non-meidcal people not a nurse.
- —Guest Marc
What ??
- My Neuro doctor(and yes he is still my doctor)told me that MS is usually the absence of pain because of numbness and the interruption of the nerve signals. So why did I come to the doctor with one of the symptoms being constant headaches, with numbness on the left side of my body?? Aren't headaches, pain ??
- —harleymann28
Why are you parked there...
- I have a handicap parking flagger on my rear view mirror...I was at Target one day picking up a few itmes and when I got out of my car an older woman in her 60's said....you need to move your car, your not sick, you cant park there, if you dont move i will call the police.....i laughed and told her go ahead.....i will be out of the store in 15 minutes waiting for you and the officer....I was so mad...ignorance...if they only knew what i deal w/ everyday....i have 32 lesions on my brain and 2 on my spine
- —Guest Nicole
"You don't look sick"
- I stupidly told my employer my dx and almost every day he said "You don't look sick". I stopped his mindless comments when one day I commented to him that "you know, you don't look gay"!
- —Guest Rebecca
Illness will correct the old one
- Ten years before being dx with MS, I had suffered a severe neck and chest injury which left me with limited range of motion. After being dx, my brother's reply was "good, maybe now your neck and chest injury won't bother you anymore." Dah!
- —Guest Nancy
whatever!!!!
- wow u look greeeeat today, are u sure u have ms?????
- —tawnjoplusone
