I think I will just quote Carolyn Hax on this one and leave it at "Wow." (MWBR if you do Hax research)

Here's part of what Sheldon has quite recently written about MS:

"Multiple Sclerosis is a nasty, rare, incurable disease, but there are lots of nasty rare incurable diseases out there.

As nasty, rare, incurable diseases go, it's one of the better ones. If you must acquire a nasty, rare, incurable disease, MS is one of the best things going!

I should mention that MS comes in many different forms , and the different forms have multiple variations. I'm really only able to address my own variant. YMSMV.

My particular flavor is "Primary Progressive" MS. This type represents about 15% of MS cases. This type tends to appear in older folks (I was pushing 60 when the symptoms started to become noticeable, and 63 when I was finally diagnosed.) My own case only affects me from the waist down, an my neurologist doesn't expect it to spread northward.

I think of it as not so much a "tragedy" as a Really Major Inconvenience.

Anyhoo, rather than focusing on the negative, this article is about the good things about MS:"----

and he goes on from there to discuss the good points. He is just the best.

His whole family seems to be pretty amazing. Reading his blog is something else. They're really brilliant, intrepid, creative, close, all four of them. It's just a pleasure to see.