Career Ending

I was in healthcare, and although I'd heard of MS, I was not at all familiar with it. For me I had fainted at first, but never did learn the cause. Then I noticed a slight coordination with my left arm but it didn't bother me and I kinda laughed it off. I thought that was something that was just a momentary thing because of dress or something.

The symptom that made me realize something wasn't right

Then I happened to be between jobs and I suddenly developed vertigo. I was familiar with that cause the practice I just left was an ENT and facial plastic surgeon. It passed about a week later and I started working again. This time with a plastic surgeon. I'm there for about a year, no more issues. Then I get pregnant and at 8 weeks I miscarried. Now a couple of months later, I happen to be assisting the doctor, just standing there while the doctor is removing sutures from a patient's breast, and I was gonna step back and get the office manager to step in and the next thing I know I'm on the floor and the doctor is holding up my legs, and the patient is looking down at me.

I thought I knew what was going on with me

I recovered and of course self-diagnosing I believed my sugar must have dropped cause it was about lunchtime. But this type of dizziness persisted and meds are doing nothing. It's time to see a neurologist cause I'm fainting out of the blue. Here goes the spinal tap and an MRI. Now time for the results. I'm still not feeling 100% with my head but better. Now in the neurology practice, there are about 8 doctors, and the one I'm seeing is telling me he's giving treatment of my care to another doctor. This doctor tells me it could be this or that, but he wants some more tests. Here goes the EEG, eye test, and radiology then he wants to repeat the MRI. I'm the meantime I'm getting blood work, a cardio workup even a respiratory workup. I'm asthmatic, so I told them I'm on meds for that.

I made a choice that I felt worked for me

Fast forward 3 months MRI time now for results. By this time my coordination is still off but, now my walking is affected. I'm dragging I'm tired to walk. I have a kindergartener to pick up from school's after care and need to get him. I'm dreading walking even more in the heat. Ok back to the results. It's confirmed MS. The doctor is telling me this is the best time to get this disease cause they have DMTs which were the ABC meds. I'm given the literature of the meds and told to pick the one I wanted, of course I pick the one least dangerous if I were to get pregnant. He advised against it and of course I didn't listen. The first thing that went through my mind me sitting in a wheelchair holding an oxygen tank. So I quit smoking.That was 25 years ago. And my babies are 30 and 24. I'm still ambulatory with assistance when I go out. I'm hanging in there. Still smoke free. So I'm fearful for MS I quit smoking for good.