Long enough for me to lose 3 uncles, a grandfather, and enough cousins that I can't remember how many. For some reason roughly every other male on my grandfather's side ends up getting MS. I thought I had it back in 2004 due to identical neurological symptoms but the MRI showed herniated discs compressing my spinal cord between C5-7.
They fixed it, but while getting an initial x-ray for VA disabilities they found 2 or 3 (one is very hard to see) of the screws holding my titanium mesh for my fusion are broken in C7 and C6, and at least 2 are backing out of the bone. Not looking forward to a surgery to extract a half of a broken screw from one or 2 of my neck bones if I need it.
At least the MRI proved I had no lesions - so no MS (yet).
What's really odd is MS usually affects more women than men, but none of the cases in my family were women. As for the uncles - one was my Grandfather's twin, and one was his son. My Grandfather's twin had it for at least10 years because he died in a VA nursing home when I was 10. I remember visiting him a lot. I can't imagine how hard it was for my Grandfather to look at his twin brother laying dead in a casket, and seeing nearly a mirror-image of himself.
I want the a-holes that kept cures for devastating diseases (like MS) hidden for profit to get a special kind of death penalty for their crimes. Every week the warden will come in and say the execution date was set for that week, do all the prep stuff for a condemned person, and call it off on the walk to the execution chamber. Every. Week. Until one week they don't call it off. /rant
Long enough for me to lose 3 uncles, a grandfather, and enough cousins that I can't remember how many. For some reason roughly every other male on my grandfather's side ends up getting MS. I thought I had it back in 2004 due to identical neurological symptoms but the MRI showed herniated discs compressing my spinal cord between C5-7.
They fixed it, but while getting an initial x-ray for VA disabilities they found 2 or 3 (one is very hard to see) of the screws holding my titanium mesh for my fusion are broken in C7 and C6, and at least 2 are backing out of the bone. Not looking forward to a surgery to extract a half of a broken screw from one or 2 of my neck bones if I need it.
At least the MRI proved I had no lesions - so no MS (yet).
What's really odd is MS usually affects more women than men, but none of the cases in my family were women. As for the uncles - one was my Grandfather's twin, and one was his son. My Grandfather's twin had it for at least10 years because he died in a VA nursing home when I was 10. I remember visiting him a lot. I can't imagine how hard it was for my Grandfather to look at his twin brother laying dead in a casket, and seeing nearly a mirror-image of himself.
I want the a-holes that kept cures for devastating diseases (like MS) hidden for profit to get a special kind of death penalty for their crimes. Every week the warden will come in and say the execution date was set for that week, do all the prep stuff for a condemned person, and call it off on the walk to the execution chamber. Every. Week. Until one week they don't call it off. /rant