Thomil's Random Ramblings

So I’m writing this a month after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis , and about two weeks after my previous blog post on this particular topic. It goes without saying that, even though I was somewhat expecting this diagnosis, having it confirmed, spelled out in cold hard facts did hit me somewhat harder than I’d expected. I guess finding out that you have something inside you that, while mild and treatable, does not have a cure does leave a mark on your psyche.  And that’s just what the situation is with multiple sclerosis. There are treatment options available, and they’re frankly mind-boggling, allowing patients to live a normal life. And I personally don’t consider my case to be somewhat mild too, which makes therapy even more of an option for me. However, there’s no known cure for this disease, and with MS being an autoimmune disease, any treatments affect the immune system’s ability to combat other diseases. So yeah, I was a little shell-shocked after the news dropped. T...