Coming out of the closet
Don’t tell anyone my dirty secret but I have Multiple Sclerosis. Don’t get crazy over the wording of that last statement, it’s a bit of a joke. I live with a disease not well understood by the general population or by the medical community. Even moreso here in Japan where it affects 1 in 10,000 (I may be wrong in that statistic, please correct me).
Hi everyone. Today I decided to disclose something that I find personal. I take my privacy seriously but I will tell just you the secret, you must promrise to keep it to yourself. I am living with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). I was diagnosed way back in 1997 and I have been expiriencing a slow steady decrease in my motor functions. These include a gait in my walk where I need a cane to help me get around, a bit of double vision lately that may or may not go away, some numbness and tingling in my left hand, and a giant horn growing from my forehead. I don’t really mind the horn so much (great at dinner parties) but the rest of the stuff really sucks. It is much worse in the summer and with my luck this has been the hottest summer in Tokyo for many years, eh whatareyougonnado?
I try to be physically active as my love of diving will attest to this fact. Diving is the anti-excersice really. The more work you do the worse the dive (use too much air). I love it but I have run into ignorance like having a dive master ask me after seeing my cane, “What are you gonna do with that?? The correct answer is of course, “Leave it in the boat.? Other things not so annoying but bothersome just the same. I’ll try to post those things here and open up the forums for communication of the topic.
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