Blog 4: Chronic Illness

I chose to interview a friend of mine that was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis when she was 27 years old.  She found out she had the disease after she had her daughter and started experiencing the symptoms.  Her disease has gotten progressively work over the last 7 years and she is currently living in a nursing home/rehab facility because of the needs that she has.  She has had hundreds of seizures including several Grand Mal seizures and is confined to her bed at this point because she has lost all use of her muscles.  While most people with MS can live for many years, my friend has been told she will be luck to live a few more months based on how rapidly progressive her MS has been.  Even though she has bee given this short amount of time my friend is truly an inspirations as she still goes through with her physical therapy daily and I have never heard her complain about the cards she ha been dealt.  Even though at this point there is not much she can do to prevent her disease from spreading and she cannot use a nutritional diet to keep herself healthy, she is having to be fed through a feeding tube, she follows everything the doctors tell her and keeps a positive attitude.  She believes that even though she only  has a short time left with us, she wants her friends and family to remember her as the strong women she is.