MS Is Not Only An Adult Disease
This blog will occassionally have posts on the various aspects of Multiple Sclerosis, including personal stories gleaned from the internet and personal interviews.
Kaley Zeitouni was just 12-years-old when she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
Her symptoms began on a typical pre-teen day. It was a holiday, and Kaley was sleeping over at a friend’s house, lightheartedly camping out in sleeping bags under the stars. When she awoke in the morning, she was sick to her stomach—and unable to walk.At first thinking she was coming down with the flu, all she wanted was her mom, Jo, by her side to do all those things that moms do to make you feel better. But, shortly after her mom arrived, Jo whisked her off to the hospital.
After seeing a battery of doctors who ran what seemed like endless tests for over a week, an MRI and a spinal tap ultimately showed a definitive MS diagnosis.
National MS Society | Kaley Zeitouni
Icreasingly, as diagnosis methods become more sophisticated, children are learning they have MS. This is not only devastating for the child, but for the entire family that has to learn to cope with the fact that someone so young has an incurable disease.
We need a cure NOW to ensure diagnoses of a child is not a life sentence of grief for the whole family
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