What charity I most believe in, and why
Feel free to share yours, and why you do.....I have two that are important to me
1. For me, I believe in the Humane Society because I'm an animal lover, and I would love to see their lives made better. Seeing some locked up in shelters in cages is heartbreaking to see. I would like to see more do do more to help them.
2. The MS Foundation
Years ago back in the summer of 1995 I was cutting my neighbors grass. As I sweat, I was rubbing my right eye as the sweat was going into my right eye. Later that night I could hardly see out of it. All I could see out of my right eye was silhouettes and shades of people. This went on for two days before My mom finally convinced me in going to see an eye doctor. After getting there I noticed a young woman who was 30 years old in the waiting room. She had MS. She was there for more tests and treatment(s) as his patient. Most of this doctor's patients were elderly however. After I went through an MRI, and having answered questions from him, all there was left to do is go home and wait a day or two for the results. I was 28 years old.
He finally called and said that what he saw on the image was some white matter inflammation lesions on my brain, and that my optic nerve was inflamed. He said that there was a 17% chance I would develop MS, and 83% chance I wouldn't. He wanted to put me on steroids to get my vision back in my eye, but I refused. He then said to me over the phone that he felt that he can no longer be my doctor, and I thought, you really weren't anyway. So after roughly three months, my vision came back on it's own.
I did a lot of research on MS and found that 2 out of 3 people who get MS are women, and that the age seems to be getting younger anymore, possibly as low as 18 years of age. It also effects people differently. No one is sure on what causes MS, but the rate also seem to be a bit higher among people in northern Europe. This may be because of the lack vitamin D, not getting enough sunshine.
Two years later I ended up with inflammation in my legs for about three months, and then that went away. But that could have been caused by me riding my exercise bike pretty hard. Then not long after that, I had balance problems trying to walk (another system of MS), and I could hardly raise my right arm up to even open the door. But then that also may have been cause by me rolling around in my back yard trying to keep limbered and firm.
After about three months, that too went away, however, I was able to use my arm again after a few days after it first happened. Studying MS, I had also learned that people who have MS will usually run into a symptom happening to them for about three months, then go away. After that you'll feel like everything is fine, and then another symptom will occur. Since then, I haven't had any symptoms that I have been aware of. This has always been in the back of my mind all these years, but as I have older, It doesn't bother me like it did when I was 28-30 years old.
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