Many of you still may want to know more of Multiple Sclerosis. Below you can read and partially understand more of this disease but like most things, you really have to be within the body of someone with MS to better make sense of this illness.
Multiple Sclerosis is a disease with a natural tendency to spontaneously either go into remission or return as a relapse. Complete or partial remission of symptoms, especially in the early stages of the disease, occurs in approximately 70 percent of MS patients.
The remainder will typically have a normal life expectancy, and although the outcome of MS is variable and unpredictable, most people with MS continue to walk and function at work with minimal disability for 20 or more years.
While most people will have a mild form of the disease, others become more impaired and unable to write, speak, or talk.
A few patients experience malignant MS, a swift deterioration that causes significant disability or even death shortly after the onset of the disease.
Symptoms of MS may be mild or severe, of long duration or short, and may appear in various combinations, depending on the area of the nervous system affected. Examples of symptoms can be provided to you, if you wish to know.
The amount of disability and discomfort varies with the severity and frequency of attacks and the part of the central nervous system affected by each attack.
Each case of MS displays one of several patterns of presentation and subsequent course.
The most common type of MS, the relapsing-remitting kind, is clearly defined by flare-ups and relapses when symptoms become dramatically worse, followed by recovery or remission when symptoms go away completely or partially.
A smaller group of individuals, about 15 percent, have progressive MS. Their symptoms generally do not go into remission and may become worse.
About half of those who begin with relapsing-remitting MS develop progressive MS within the first decade after diagnosis.
They may continue to have attacks and periods of partial recovery but their symptoms gradually become worse as functional deficits accumulate.
I could probably write a very complete manual but this would eventually bore you. However, by reading what is written above, you can see why I continue to raise monies for "both", to fund research AND to aid the programs that are available for the MS Patient. If you wish to know more of these programs then please ask me. Attached, I have included an article recently written by the Miami Herald. Here too, you can find my devotion and desire to continue to fundraise...
In the meantime, I would really appreciate if you could open your checkbook, to send a contribution made payable to : The National MS Society
and then to mail it to me:
c/o Stuart Schlossman -
8669 SW 51st Street - Cooper City, Fl. 33328
OR... you could make an easy online (secure) ePledge :
by copying and pasting this link into your browser:
www.nationalmssociety.org/FLS/home/epledge_search_1.asp
Please be sure to include:
My first and last name: Stuart Schlossman
My Team Name: : Hot Shots
and participant State : Florida
I hope that for the memory of Richard and for the sake of the hundreds of thousands of others living with MS, that I soon hear that you helped in My endless Battle to find a cure..
Sincerely,
Stuart Schlossman
Many of you still may want to know more of Multiple Sclerosis. Below you can read and partially understand more of this disease but like most things, you really have to be within the body of someone with MS to better make sense of this illness.
Multiple Sclerosis is a disease with a natural tendency to spontaneously either go into remission or return as a relapse. Complete or partial remission of symptoms, especially in the early stages of the disease, occurs in approximately 70 percent of MS patients.
The remainder will typically have a normal life expectancy, and although the outcome of MS is variable and unpredictable, most people with MS continue to walk and function at work with minimal disability for 20 or more years.
While most people will have a mild form of the disease, others become more impaired and unable to write, speak, or talk.
A few patients experience malignant MS, a swift deterioration that causes significant disability or even death shortly after the onset of the disease.
Symptoms of MS may be mild or severe, of long duration or short, and may appear in various combinations, depending on the area of the nervous system affected. Examples of symptoms can be provided to you, if you wish to know.
The amount of disability and discomfort varies with the severity and frequency of attacks and the part of the central nervous system affected by each attack.
Each case of MS displays one of several patterns of presentation and subsequent course.
The most common type of MS, the relapsing-remitting kind, is clearly defined by flare-ups and relapses when symptoms become dramatically worse, followed by recovery or remission when symptoms go away completely or partially.
A smaller group of individuals, about 15 percent, have progressive MS. Their symptoms generally do not go into remission and may become worse.
About half of those who begin with relapsing-remitting MS develop progressive MS within the first decade after diagnosis.
They may continue to have attacks and periods of partial recovery but their symptoms gradually become worse as functional deficits accumulate.
I could probably write a very complete manual but this would eventually bore you. However, by reading what is written above, you can see why I continue to raise monies for "both", to fund research AND to aid the programs that are available for the MS Patient. If you wish to know more of these programs then please ask me. Attached, I have included an article recently written by the Miami Herald. Here too, you can find my devotion and desire to continue to fundraise...
In the meantime, I would really appreciate if you could open your checkbook, to send a contribution made payable to : The National MS Society
and then to mail it to me:
c/o Stuart Schlossman -
8669 SW 51st Street - Cooper City, Fl. 33328
OR... you could make an easy online (secure) ePledge :
by copying and pasting this link into your browser:
www.nationalmssociety.org/FLS/home/epledge_search_1.asp
Please be sure to include:
My first and last name: Stuart Schlossman
My Team Name: : Hot Shots
and participant State : Florida
I hope that for the memory of Richard and for the sake of the hundreds of thousands of others living with MS, that I soon hear that you helped in My endless Battle to find a cure..
Sincerely,
Stuart Schlossman :)
