Oct
12
“Cyber support”
Filed Under News, Personal Stories
Very good profile of the woman who founded MS World:
For Kathleen Wilson, multiple sclerosis came on like a flash of lightning.There was, in retrospect, a rumble of warning when she experienced some blurriness of vision while attending a professional seminar; an ophthalmologist’s check didn’t reveal any problems.But the next day when she woke up, “I had bilateral vision loss,” Wilson says. “Shapes were completely washed out, and everything was white on white.”
What Wilson experienced that morning in 1988 — and which took nine months to completely resolve itself — was optic neuritis, an inflammation of the optic nerve.
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In Wilson’s case, not only did the optic neuritis eventually disappear, “It got completely better,” she says. “I went into remission for six years.”With a background in marketing, she moved to Washington state and worked for 18 months for the nonprofit Hanford Health Information Network, assisting people who had lived downwind from the long-defunct nuclear plant. After that, she moved to Athens, Greece.
“I went for six months and stayed four years,” Wilson says. She studied the language, honed her photography skills and jumped off bleached rock cliffs into the Mediterranean.
Then, in 1995, the MS returned.
“It started with my right hand. Suddenly, I couldn’t write,” she recalls. “I thought, ‘Oh, no, is it the MS coming back?’ After that, it progressed really quickly.”
Read the rest via Living: Health & Fitness | “Cyber support” | The Register-Guard | Eugene, Oregon.
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