BELIEVE: DON'T BE HELD A PRISONER OF YOUR DIAGNOSIS

When I received my as diagriosis on May 9,2011, the prognosis was that I would be in a wheelchair within five years and would likely die from the disease within ten. The disease causes the white matter in the brain, or the central nervous system, to become damaged or "stripped," making it unable to receive messages from the brain or transfer them to the body. It's much like when an electrician strips a wire-it can no longer conduct electricity from the outlet (the brain) to the light or obj...