MS strikes again!

Mostly this is about life as a mom who has a son with multiple sclerosis and what that feels like. I remember very clearly the day we were told. My son symptoms presented with his left eye. It had stopped moving. The first thing they did after the initial exam was send him to see a neurologist who scheduled him for an MRI. We were sitting in his office as he went through the results and when he was finished, he asked what we thought when we heard the term multiple sclerosis. It took all I had to keep it together and not break down. For Dustin's sake, I did not want to do that. I was trying my best to be strong and positive. He kept asking what we thought and all could say was, "I need to go home and process this". All Dustin could say was he was glad it wasn't cancer that he could live with a wheelchair at some point but he has since changed his thinking. He had no idea at the time what he was up against. What was going through my mind was a friend who was diagnosed when we were in our late 20's. He was an electrician with his own very busy business. My thoughts went to all of scrambling to help him out as he was quickly admitted to hospital where he was bed ridden and couldn't even feed himself for weeks. Back then they didn't have MRI's and CAT scans so after ruling out other illnesses, the decided he had multiple sclerosis. I have lost touch with them due to all of us moving to different areas but I often wonder how he is doing.