Quote Originally Posted by SadieKate View Post
It doesn't alway mean inactivity or disability.
Nope. But it's easy for a seemingly minor MS symptom to take away an activity that someone loves. Dan, the family friend with MS, was an organist. He's still a great musician, but he'll never play the organ again. He started out playing with superhuman perfection. He slowly started making mistakes, and then suddenly, it was more mistakes than music. I'll never get to hear him play again. I'll still get to hear choral music that he directs, but a choir isn't the same, and it's not the instrument he loves best.

Unlike a lot of other chronic diseases, there's no good treatment for MS. There's not even a way to reliably slow the progression of symptoms. People can live for many years with no real trouble from the disease, and then suddenly need a wheelchair.

I really hope you and Sheldon don't go through anything like what Dan did. It's awful to watch, and it's got to be worse to live through it.