Just want to share a funny MS poem

[KristaH]

It's Not My Imagination

My right eye's always twitching.
My legs are filled with lead.
I am forever dropping things.
And they say it's in my head.

I have six pairs of glasses
With no two quite the same.
And I wear each one on different days
‘Cuz my eyes keep playing games.

I have this buzzing feeling
Deep inside my head.
And a jolt of electricity
Just made my feet fly off the bed.

Sometimes my throat won't swallow.
Sometimes I pee my pants.
When I ask the docs, "Is this MS?"
They just say "There's a chance."

When my tongue went into spasm
It did a u-turn in my throat
And blocked my life's-breath airway.
The doc said, "Make a note."

My legs went numb and swollen
And doctors shook their head.
But they won't put a label on it
Until I'm good and dead.

The vertigo is dreadful,
The burning skin's a pain.
The doctor give me lots of pills
And says, "Come back again!"

It isn't diabetes
Or syphilis, or a tumor.
But they won't tell me what it is
And I'm almost out of humor.

One neuro just shook his head
And said, "See Dr. House."
Another actually said, "Get laid."
A third, "Redecorate your house."

I am not a hypochondriac.
This whimsical thing is real
So please just give me a definite name
For the crappy way I feel!

Liz R. (this is the lady who wrote this and I wanted to make sure she got the credit)

[Slugger]

That's great! I go in for what will almost certainly be my definite diagnosis tomorrow (!) - I should print this out so I remember everything that's going on!

[ActiveMSers]

Good luck at your Doc appointment, Slugger. Many of us MSers, myself included, got diagnosed over the phone (as in, "Yep, as we suspected, you have MS"), so to actually see someone face-to-face is a treat.

Of course as the poem says, just getting diagnosed can be a relief. For some people it can take years and years.

[Slugger]

Yeah, I shoot the tube tomorrow. Two hours, my first c-spine. Thank you, Valium!!! Then, two hours to sober up from the Valium and off to the MS neuro-NP. If this visit is anything like the last two, I'll be there for a good long time. I'm kinda sorta in a weird way looking forward to it. I'll at least gets lots of info, questions answered, etc.