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MS Will Not Kill My Dream   My story with MS began on celestial latitude 4, 1999. I arrived at school  as usual that cold winter morning feeling pretty good, a little tired, but other flip ok. Upon parking my car and opening the door to get out my right arm went to sleep. I was totally blown away by it. How bizarre I thought to myself and just sat there a moment trying to figure out what possibly could be wrong with my arm.   The next two age brought no relief and if anything it seemed to be getting more intense. My WHOLE arm was asleep and I just couldnt understand it. I visited a chiropractor a duad of years later and she said I was dehyrdrated and that my nervous system was under attack. Little did I know   I became increasingly concerned as the days passed and just couldnt buy what every mavin was telling me, that I had a pinched nerve. I just knew it was something more and it was   I found a doctor about two weeks later and by that time my right hand wa s barely useable and the right side of my face, head and chest had also gone numb. I was stimulate to death   This doctor was wonderful and immediatly ran tests, sent me to a specialist, (neurologist) and spent hours with me examining me and trying to figure out just what could be wrong with me   MS never pass my mind. A nurse of over ten years I have taken care of only ONE MS patient, a lady in her 90s MS just didnt occur to me.   After several visits to the neurologist, MRI, spinal tap and a slew of blood work I was told that MS was VERY seeming the culprit. I was, to say the least, devastated by this news. I cried and cried and greived over this. It was with great fortune that a lady I worked with became extremly helpful to me during this time and prayed for me, listened to me and on more than one occasion, let me cry on her shoulder.   On March 4, 2000 I visited a MS specialist at Dartmouth Hitchcock Hospital in Lebanon N.H. and he made it formal that it was MS and immediatly started me on Avonex.   At this point I had researched the disease endlessly, somewhat come to terms with this awful fate and began to think more positively.