Ohio MS Report
For Michelle Schilling and 400,000 other Americans who acknowledge
having multiple sclerosis, symptoms are most often strange and vague —
different for each person.
“I woke up from a nap one day and the
entire side of my body was numb,” Schilling said of her first attack of
multiple sclerosis (MS) seven years ago.
Every week 200 people
in the United States, one every 20 minutes, are diagnosed with MS,
according to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
…
There are more than 15,000 people in Ohio diagnosed with MS. It is the
leading disabler of the Ohio economy, costing an individual more than
$57,000 each year and $1 million over the course of the disease,
according to The National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Ohio Buckeye
Chapter.
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