BCtriguy1 wrote:
Where in Canada is she? I swim with a lady who has MS here in BC. Short story: swam as a kid, stopped as a teenager, went through life generally being unhealthy (smoking, drinking, bad eating habits etc), got diagnosed with MS, went downhill pretty quickly, got back in the pool, symptoms started regressing and her swimming took off. Her symptoms have reversed so far that I had been swimming with her for over a year before even realizing she had MS.She just did a 70k open water swim this summer to raise money for MS. She is an incredible woman and great lane mate.
Here is an article on her if your sister is interested in other athletes with MS:http://www.vicnews.com/news/245274891.html[/quote[/url]]
Thanks for the link. I will forward it to her.
She was in Ontario. She has moved to Missouri to do a PhD. She can't run in summer there but does get some running indoors but has to monitor her temperature carefully. That's easily done as her PhD is pretty time consuming.
Yes it cost her a squillion to get health insurance in the US, given her 'pre-existing condition'.
She is an incredibly positive person. She is a lot like me in that she decides what she wants to do, and rather than looking at the stumbling blocks along the way to her goal, she looks for ways that she can achieve what she wants, or as close to it as she can get. Luckily, through careful management she has been pretty much episode free for 8 years now. She knows to stop when she gets the numbness or bad tingling to limit the extent of the episode, get her core temp down, and other measures of whatever she can do to limit/contol it.
TriDork
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