Multiple Sclerosis

Multiple Sclerosis, commonly known as MS, is a disease that attacks the central nervous system. I had always heard about MS, and it was always out there in someone else's life...December 2003 my family was introduced to it and now we are on a first name basis. Christmas 2003 my brother was diagnosed with MS (explained). It's been a very interesting relationship, like any other acquaintance it comes and goes (or the symptoms do) but there's always a 'reminder' that it's there (numbness, fatigue). Not being the person that it affects personally, you know that it's there but you cannot grasp the fullness of it because the symptoms are personal. Though the symptoms are personal the affects are not...it leaves one felling helpless sometimes because there is absolutely nothing that you can do. Unlike cancer, there is no cure. Nor is there a definite 'cause'. So we live with something that 'just is', hoping and praying for God to intervene and do what we know He can.