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I rarely respond - just read the e-mails, but this I will answer. I
developed TM 5 1/2 years ago & it has changed my life. I had worked as an RN
for 37 years with the last 12 years as a Director of Nursing at the local
health department - I loved the job. My disease progressed for about 6 weeks
until I could no longer keep up. I had numbness,muscle weakness, banding at
the chest level, & bad fatigue - was dx after seeing a neurologist & a spinal
tap & MRI. When I left work that day I had no idea I would never return. It
took about 6 months of some progress to know I could no longer work. Have been
left with severe numbness of my hands & feet, muscle weakness, poor balance, a
bad tremor in my right hand, & fatigue when I try to push & do to much. It has
taken about 2 years to completely come to terms with this disability & if I
have a particularly bad day I can start to feel sorry for myself, but it goes
away quickly. After
reading about the problems of some of the group I consider myself lucky. I
was fortunate get disabity from work & social security within 6 months &
with help from a wonderful husband I feel I manage well.
"Do what you can, with what you have, right where you are!" ( by Theodore
Roosevelt)
