| This is the story of a ham and egger. A close | | | | correct world but back then it was OK. I myself |
| friend of mine uses that term quite often and his | | | | was diagnosed at the age of 33. It's ironic that I |
| definition of a ham and egger is someone who's | | | | now have the disease and I can still remember |
| out in the real world grunting out a living. I wish I | | | | that commercial 40 years ago.MS is a very |
| could say I'm rich and famous but I'm not. I'm | | | | humbling disease. When a man has to buy his first |
| just like 90% of the population out there grunting | | | | pair of Depends underwear at the age of 47 you |
| out a living with one exception. In 1991 I was | | | | are HUMBLED! Believe me your ARE humbled. My |
| diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. It's hard to | | | | friend Eric was going into Fargo one day and I |
| believe it's been 14 years already. I love to talk | | | | asked him to pick me up a bag of Depends just |
| and when you're reading this if it seems like I'm | | | | to see what he would say. He's 39, laughed, and |
| rambling from one topic to another I probably am. | | | | said "no thanks, I can't do that! I gave him some |
| That's a part of my MS called disinhibition.I love to | | | | grief and then laughed with him. When your |
| have fun and I've been told I have a great | | | | 4-year old can run faster than you you're |
| personality. I'm very honest and trustworthy. I | | | | humbled. People with diseases like MS just have to |
| would give the shirt off my back to someone | | | | adjust their lives accordingly.When I finally went in |
| that needed it. Next summer will be 15 years | | | | to see a neurologist in 1991 I was unsure what |
| since my diagnosis and I'm still out there grunting! | | | | the heck was wrong with me. I had eyesight |
| At times I get down but I don't stay that way | | | | problems, numbness and tingling all over my body, |
| very long. There is so much to do in life. If you | | | | I was having trouble urinating, I wasn't sleeping |
| can get over the fact that you're going to be | | | | too well, I had a slight limp and a myriad of other |
| doing those things sitting down helps you accept | | | | problems happening to my body. What could be |
| your disease. In my ebook I want to explain MS | | | | wrong with me I asked? It had taken me a year |
| some of my MS symptoms. I also want to tell | | | | to get in to see an eye doctor and it would be |
| you about a new business that I just started on | | | | another 3-6 months before I finally had the |
| the internet. It's very inexpensive to get started | | | | diagnosis I was looking for. Believe it or not by |
| and although I'm going to market it to everyone | | | | the end I was actually relieved that I had MS! I |
| I'm especially going to target it towards disabled | | | | didn't know what course it would take but at least |
| people.I'm 47 now and I can trace my symptons | | | | I had a name for all my symptoms. I also knew |
| back to at least 1980. I've had this disease in my | | | | that I didn't have a stroke, cancer, ALS, or any |
| body for half of my life. I remember when I was | | | | other major problem. I had been on a roller |
| a little boy growing up in Rochester, Minnesota. A | | | | coaster ride for over a year wondering what was |
| commercial on TV (this was the 60's) showed | | | | wrong but now I knew!Jon Wegner is a lifelong |
| people in wheelchairs with the tag line, "MS, the | | | | Minnesota resident who now lives in Fargo, North |
| crippler of young adults". I don't think that tag line | | | | Dakota. |
| would work well these days in our politically | | | | |