Living With MS
Carrissa’s Story: Told Through the Eyes of her M...
On May12th, 2012 it was a sunny warm day with temperatures around 70-80 degrees, abnormal for May. Carrissa woke up with a headache; we didn’t think anything about it because migraines and headaches were normal in your house. I get migraines, Carrissa would get migraines and so would her brother, Garrett. Carrissa then got physically sick, again nothing unusual, she and Garrett would both get sick when they had migraines and then they would feel better and the migraine would go away. We decided that we were going to go to the batting cages and practice for Little League. On the way Carrissa asked to pull over and she got physically sick again. At that point we headed home and all I wanted to do was to have her rest, figuring she had a 24 hour stomached bug. We stopped and got some ginger ale on the way back for her to sip and settle her stomach. We dropped Garrett of at a friend’s house, Carrissa got out and was walking around, she was then next to the car and laughing saying, “Mommy look I am drooling.” We then went home and Carrissa relaxed on the couch, she still complained of Read More...
Carrissa's Story
When my daughter Carrissa was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis on February 11, 2013 our lives were forever changed. So many questions about what the future held for Carrissa, our family and what was next. Would Carrissa continue to get lesions on her brain and if she did would she have another episode, would it leave her paralyzed, would she walk again, would she lose her eye sight? This is Carrissa's story as seen through her mother's eyes . . . Would she be okay in school, were her grades going to slip because she couldn't concentrate or focus, was she going to feel isolated and different than everyone else, was the school going to understand and help her become the best student that she could be? Would she be able to play the sports that she loved to play and how would this disease change how she played these sports? We had already been through so much since Mother’s Day of 2012. -but our family won’t let MS win. We knew that we had to get educated and do something about MS NOW! This is why we founded Mothers against MS — MAMS and are raising money to fund research to find a Read More...