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"Whoever said 'nothings impossible' never tried to nail jell-o to a tree" - Lisa Bryant |
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Hmm where to start… A couple of years ago things started to go very wrong and MS wise I started to deteriorate very quickly. I was at uni studying music at the time and ended up having to leave and move back home with my parents. My walking was getting a lot worse and this was hard to deal with but to be honest it was the emotional things that went with it that got to me the most. I couldn’t go out and socialise with my mates anymore and this got me down because I started to think that nobody would want to stay in contact with me because I was so boring and couldn’t do much. I have lost contact with a lot of people though force of circumstance but I treasure my friends beyond anything else and have made so many fantastic new ones through my little cyberworld. I’ve always been a technophobe and used to avoid the internet as much as I could but now I can’t live without it. I have learnt so much from it and met so many wonderful people that I would have never known any other way. A lot of this is down to www.msrc.co.uk “The greatest little charity in the world” It’s strange because when I was first diagnosed I was so scared and messed up basically although still physically well. I use a wheelchair pretty much all day now but in a lot of ways I am now more happy and positive about the future. I don’t want to turn this into one of those cheesy life goes on, happy ending yada yada things because trust me, I still have my bad days, but an MS diagnosis doesn’t have to be the end of the world. I’m not particularly religious but I do believe that things happen for a reason. Heck I could do without the MS but because of it I now know very different people and have very different interests. I miss my music I was studying at uni but I’m now studying homeopathy which previously I didn’t even know what it was let alone have any interest in it. I got interested in homeopathy largely because I was getting sick of conventional medicines and their side effects. Homeopathy is natural and safe, without side effects as the remedies are used in a highly dilute form. It also treats the patient as an individual and addresses all the patients’ symptoms whether or not in conventional medicine they’d be ascribed to the particular problem the patient may have been diagnosed with. One of my main problems is spasms and stiffness in my legs which leads me onto something else I’m quite passionate about – medicinal cannabis! Slightly controversial subject but I know it helps me and I know of others far worse off than me who use it to help with pain and other symptoms. GW pharmaceuticals are in the process of trying to get their synthetic form, sativex, licensed for use in this country as it is in Canada but this is proving to be a long drawn out process. For more info on medicinal cannabis see www.ukmum.org.uk |
Well I’m Wizzie, Lizzie, Liz, Lizpop, youngun, wanton trollope or any combination there of. I’m nearly 24 and was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when I was 18 and I suppose that’s where this story starts. I was doing my a-levels at the time and so this was extra stress I didn’t really need. Fortunately my symptoms were pretty mild to start with so it didn’t have too much of an impact on my life. |
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