Multiple Sclerosis

So my mother has MS. She actually had it diagnosed after I was born. Hardest part for me to understand with her MS is the fact that she is very limited with her movements and I've seen her deteriorate since I was a little kid to now. And stress really brings it on quicker. The fact that she went from okay walking to a cane walking to walker, and now she's either walker or scooter. It's been frustrating to see my parent deteriorate, especially because my dad's already gone. She's my only one left. And the fact that like when I grew up, I had to almost be an adult because I had to take care of her. I had to help her with her baths because she couldn't feel temperature. I had to help her whenever she tripped, help her with laundry dishes, whatever, because it was too heavy for her. So for me, it was hard to watch and it was hard to handle as a kid.

So the hardest aspects of this disease is communication for me. Getting my words out, what things mean sometimes, what people are saying, what that means to me. And then my memory, I usually repeat myself. My short-term memory is bad. Somebody could say something to me and it goes right over my head, like that, you know, right over. So that's kind of hard. So my memory and communication is the worst and that affects me the most.