Greeting

9/26/2010
Hello everyone my name is James Langston I am 40 years old and I have MS. I was diagnosed about 3 weeks ago and have started my injections. I also have diabetes which I thought was what was giving me problems. My wife has been telling me for a couple of months that my eyes looked funny and I would forget things all the time. I did not think much of it but I started loosing my balance alot and falling down so I went to the doctor.

They could not find anything wrong with my blood work so they scheduled me a MRI to look at my brain. They noticed spots on the brain and gave me a spinal tap that confirmed the MS. I only had one relative with MS and that is by marriage and I see how debilating it can be. So I told a couple of people and someone I worked with said they had it and I have been working with him for 4 years and never noticed anything about him so I had new hope.

I take injections 3 times a week (M,W,F)and rest on the weekend kind of like a job. They said it could be hereditary but I did not know anyone that had it. But my grandmother had a stroke at 30 and died at 46 the average length they told me that a person use to live with MS now they said it is about 20 years. I often wonder if she could have had it and was misdiagnosed as that ofter happend in those days.

Anyway i wanted to chronicle my journey so if it is hereditary maybe it can help someone else. I do have two young kids and they can see what I am like if it does start to dibilate me. I will hopefully have daily post plus video post along the way.
Tomorrow will start the real postings.