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I don't even focus on what could be the worst thing. I think the worst thing for me is sometimes how other people treat me.
I have worked enough and I am happy to be touring the country speaking about living with MS to give people inspiration and motivation to help themselves.
It is hard to find shoes. Manolo Blanhik hasn't come out with his MS line of shoes yet! I am waiting!
It used to be when you said you had MS, people would say, Oh, that's so devastating! It's not like that-partially because I'm out there talking about it and even laughing about it.
I've always been this insane. Isn't that interesting?
Some people are in wheelchairs, but they're allowed to have a positive attitude, too.
There are things that you can do today that, years ago, there was nothing. The community today needs to know that with MRI and the current medications the view is good.
Look at me, I'm functioning.
You can be diagnosed and treated early. And there is hope for the future.
The ghost who revealed himself was John Belushi. He told us there was a conspiracy in LA involving then chief of police Daryl Gates and a prostitution ring.
These days 10-year-olds are very wild!
I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking.
There are different types of MS.
I understand how hard it is to talk to people about MS. You don't want pity or random advice.
You can't think about MS 24/7-you have to learn to put it on the back burner and get on with your life.
I think eventually they're going to find out that MS is like 10 different things. I have a neurological disease something like MS, and it's MS, so let's take medicine for it.
Take a step back, evaluate what is important, and enjoy life.
In addition to having a good partnership with a good doctor, you have to do some of the work yourself. Go online, read about it, and find out what you can tolerate.
I have a disease, but I also have a lot of other things.
With this disease it is so easy to throw in the towel, and that is the worst thing we can do.
I think there are a lot of myths about MS, and it may have affected my career.
MS doesn't define who I am.
If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.
I plan to live to be 120!
I knew Richard Pryor years ago. But I have not seen him lately. He does have a more progressive form of the disease.
Someday they may cure MS, that idiot thing. It gets in there and they can't get it out.
I have heard all kinds of stories about telling employers about MS and I really don't know what the answer is. I am a private person, but I have found support by talking to fellow MSrs in the community.
You can keep it to yourself, but you could also call a support team like the team at MS LifeLines. They are there to support the MS community and give good advice.
I have been off the motorcycles for about 20 years now, but that doesn't mean I can't still do it.
Oddly enough, MS has made my life so much better than it was before. I now appreciate what I have and I am not running around like a rat in a maze.
This is almost exactly what happened to me: Lesions on my spine and not on my brain and a clear lumbar puncture. It's true.
Being in show business and being rejected so much from the get go, starting out being an actress, I always had hope.
There were symptoms that I saw, and though I went to many doctors and had many tests, no one diagnosed MS.
Seventy-five percent of MS sufferers are women.
One of the reasons my diagnosis was not in black and white was because I didn't want it to be. Denial with a capitol D.
You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.
I recently saw the movie about Ray Charles, and there's a scene where he falls down and the mother doesn't help him. She says, I don't want anyone to treat you like a cripple. I've fallen down before, and Molly will say, get up and just go.
I got a diagnosis in '99. I didn't know what was wrong with me for years. I had as long as 10 years when I had no symptoms.
The most important thing is when you do something proactive to help yourself. You feel better mentally and emotionally.
I have an enormous fondness for delicious food. It's very comforting.
You have to lift your head up out of the mud and just do it.
I go to my physical therapist to keep fighting it and one of them told me if you don't use it, you lose it, but I know we're on television so I won't say what I would often say.
Any movie I've ever made, the minute you walk on the set they tell you who's the person to buy it from.
I do Pilates a lot. I don't do a lot of cardiovascular stuff.
My doctor said, for want of a better word, now that we've got medicines out here that can help, let's put you on one of them and say we're treating MS.
There's always going to be somebody worse off than me.
If you sit around, you get stiff. You have to move, but it's very tricky because if you move too much you wear yourself out.
I would trip and get a little tingling in my arm, but then-like a cold sore-it would go away.
There are some really expensive French shoes calle ARCH for formal occasions, but I am not very formal, as you can tell.
I'm wondering if they haven't reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were reported, the government would have to step in and give more financial aid to us.
I take one of the interferon therapies, Rebif.
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