Now have Multiple sclerosis
come on man, this shit isn't fair
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Damn, that's terrible :(
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Selma Blair has it too...They worked together in The Sweetest Thing(2002), along with Cameron Diaz, could that movie somehow be the cause, like maybe they were exposed to some harmful chemicals when shooting it or other cause, something similar happened during the production of the movie The Conqueror(1956) shot near a nuclear test site and many of the crew members got sick with cancer later in life...
sharehighly unlikely......... just a coincidence
but if Cameron Diaz gets it too.... then you have a case
Jesus Christ, genes really, really suck! First great cancer, now this? And the worst part about MS is that there's nothing you can do about it, unlike cancer. You just fall apart over time and become completely helpless in the end. I saw a documentary on Annette Funicello right before she died, and it was horrible. I don't believe in euthansia but MS is one of those rare exceptions where I'd understand. This is a disease that robs you of your last 10-15 years of life. 🙁
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Agree about euthanasia. The problem is that there is always that slippery slope. I read something a few years ago about euthanasia in a European country being abused. And we all remember the Grim Reaper Jack Kavorkian.
I want to live as long as I'm on both feet and am not a burden to anyone. Once that point is reached, I'm done here. Hopefully, nature will pull my plug and not let me linger.
Don't believe everything you read. Good luck.
shareI'm not sure you understand Kevorkian other than what sensationalist media has exclaimed.
Death with Dignity and Compassion for what is Inevitable and Painful is not to be taken lightly.
Kevorkian may have been wrong in some ways, but he may have been ahead of his time, too.
Yep, the older I get the more I appreciate what he was doing.
There are some things worse than death. I think about people only existing through the work of ventilators and feeding tubes; a ghost trapped in a machine that no longer functions on its own, yet you can still feel pain, still feel the indignity and ignobility that life can muster. Your soul encased, permanently, in the slowly rotting tomb of an organic sarcophagus.
In that regard, I defer to Sophocles, who seemed to better understand that in such moments, 'tis better to die than exist for the sake suffering...
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Is to begin to live. It is to end
An old, stale, weary work, and to commence
A newer and a better."
Watched my mother spend years being fed through a feeding tube, years of not being able to understand anything she tried to say, and the last couple of years not even being able to muster more than a moan... she died at 55 but started that terrible process at 38 when the parkinson was diagnosed. If she had known what the end would have been like I doubt she would have ever agreed to the feeding tube and just choked to death or starved in her 40's as the doctor warned would happen without the tube.
No way I will ever give anyone permission to do something that could send me down that path of living hell. When you can no longer eat it's a sign from nature that you should die, but give a doctor the opportunity and they can do all sorts of things to hold off the inevitable and never tell you what the consequences will be.
I absolutely agree with everything you said. If I get diagnosed with Parkinson's or MS, Lou Gehrig(a friend of mine died 3 years after being diagnosed with ALS and another friend had a very aggressive case and died in 15 months. Both in their 40's). I will make an eventual end plan. I was a caretaker and it's a horrible thing to watch happen to a person. Dying with dignity should be a personal choice.
shareI'm not sure you understand Kevorkian other than what sensationalist media has exclaimed.
I understand Kevorkian completely. The guy was nothing less than a ghoul and a mass murderer to boot. When he couldn't find any terminally ill people to watch die, he "euthanized" several who were in no pain and were not terminally ill.
He also didn't provide the apparatus and then leave, he watched them die.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=94765&page=1
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We have assisted death in Canada. It works just fine from what i can tell. Most of the people who have used it have ALS which is a terrible disease.
shareWhen they first passed the bill MS wasn't included. I don't know if it actually is now, but I know that a few people with MS have been able to use it with the assistance of the court.
shareThere are a lot of treatments available to those with MS which can slow the progression quite a bit. I don't know how long Christina has actually had it before diagnosis, as most cases are diagnosed between 20-40 yrs old. Hopefully she is a later case because they sooner they can start on a DMD the chances of not ending up completely immobile decrease dramatically.
shareI've know quite a few people that had/have it and noticed that there seems to be no rhyme or reason in whether it decides to react to treatments or not. Worst case was a family where all 3 of their kids were diagnosed with it in their late twenties or early thirties. The oldest one followed everything the doctor said to the point of weighing the food so the diet was precisely controlled, he died before the age of 50. His brother ignored everything he was supposed to do and decided to live large while he could.. he died at 58... the sister decided to do all sorts of new age crap, but has managed to stay alive though is in a wheelchair and is now 52. So there were 3 cases and the one that used the medicines and modified lifestyle died at the youngest age. While some of the treatments probably do some good, I'm afraid that the disease and how it reacts to the treatments is a bit random.
shareIt is random, and every case is different. The lesions attack everyone differently. It depends on where they are in the brain or the spine as to what sort of symptoms someone gets. No two people will present in the exact same way. I was diagnosed at 33 after having symptoms for about 6 years. I'm in contact with many people who have MS through the MS society, and new treatments really are making a difference. If someone has progressed passed RRMS into PPMS or SPMS then there are fewer things that can be done. That being said the number of new treatments that are available to us now that weren't available when I started on my DMDs are amazing. I have hope. Even if not for me, but for those who have yet to be diagnosed.
shareI was never a huge fan of Married With Children but it certainly had it's appeal.
And as much as I didn't want to like Kelly Bundy, my gosh, CA just popped off the screen as being SO FOXY !
Later as I learned a little more about her, I wish I had a better understanding of her when I was younger.
I love attractive women, but I love them more when I know something about them and understand what makes them "tic" so to speak.
I'm sure she's well-cared for. What a lovely woman.
It's a bit depressing, yeah.
sharethis is very sad. wish her the best.
shareCelebrities really have it made. Fame, fortune, Multiple Sclerosis. I don’t even have a Singular Sclerosis.
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