About MS and Me

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My name is Alejandro Bermúdez but please call me Alex. I have been living with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) for almost 14 years now.

I’m sure you heard it before…..the saying about how life can change in the flip of a coin, right?

THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HAPPEND TO ME HERE

I went to bed one night back in October of 1996 and by mid morning the next day, I was having all sort of difficulties with coordination and strength. It all started when I tried to call my secretary over the intercom and I talked in a total slurred.

My wife, Alina Alejandra, and I were married a little over a year before "that day".

We had been making all sorts of plans when life suddenly was turn upside down. I remember feeling extremely tired, more like exhausted. That sure was odd; it was around 10 o’clock in the morning.

I managed to go back home and the last thing I remember doing was falling down, crashing, in our bed.

At around 12:30 my wife got home for lunch and woke me up. She was surprised to see me but I was more surprised when I started to tell her about what had just happen that morning and realize I was talking fine and everything seems was back to normal.

THE FEAR OF NOT KNOWING

We didn’t think too much about it. We ate lunch and I went back to my office around 2:00 pm. By one of those life’s coincidences, my dad came by my office that afternoon. My grandmother had just passed away a few months before and when I told him about the weird incident I had that morning, he suggested we go see a Neurologist that had seen my grandma.

Although everything seem to be back to normal, the doctor had me do a bunch of movements with my eyes, my legs and my arms, including my hands. He suggested I get a CT scan and a couple of days later he told me I have had a brain infarct or Ischemic attack. The doctor suggested we go somewhere with an MRI facility and he referred us to a colleague neurologist.

My parents, my wife and I decided to travel to Miami, Florida to see the neurologist my doctor back home referred me too and get a brain MRI.

GETTING THE DIAGNOSIS

To make a long story short, the new neurologist saw the MRI results and after examining me told us that there was a chance of me having MS but if nothing happens in the next five years, we could discarded it as one of those “flukes” in life !

We all sat there in front of the doctor not knowing what to say or what to think. I didn’t know anything about MS. Not even what MS meant.

My mom’s look was one of sheer fright. She knew somebody who has MS. It was a long time ago but she remembered that her friend couldn’t walk and needed a wheelchair to get around.

We left the doctor’s office in total shock. I knew it was serious but didn't know how serious nor how it was going to affect mine, my wife's and my entire family's lives.

That was almost 14 years ago and although it hasn’t been easy, the changes I have made, in both the physical as well as the mental aspects of living with multiple sclerosis, during the past 4 or 5 years, are the foundation of my new living with MS.

WHY DID I CREATE WWW.MS-MULTIPLE-SCLEROSIS-SYMPTOMS.COM?

Every time I get the chance to meet someone else living with MS, I automatically feel a bond forming. I don’t know about you but for me the fact that this person knows exactly how it feels to have MS every day, morning and night, makes me want to talk to that person right away.

Hearing someone with MS say – “I know exactly how you feel” is sort of special for me. I’ll explain:

Your parent’s are probably the people that loves you the most in the whole world, but regardless of what they say, they will never know, no matter how many times they say they understand, exactly what you are experiencing.

That got me thinking about what I could do to share what I know about MS and perhaps help others. Whether they have it too or just want to know more about it from a patient’s point of view, hence www.ms-multiple-sclerosis-symptoms.com.

”A DOOR CLOSES BUT ANOTHER ONE ALWAYS OPENS"

I love that saying. I really believe it. It is so true. MS forced me to leave a very good job with a promising future ahead: I was General Manager of a Money Transfer business. I was well compensated and with all the usual benefits that come with such a position. Oh well………..That door is definitely shut.

I don’t want to bore you with all the details about the hardships and frighting moments my wife and I had to face. Needless to say, although my wife works, the idea of me not being able to work at some point in the future - when? Nobody could say – was a very scary picture on my mind.

I graduated from Berry, College in Rome, Georgia with a B.S. in Computer Science/Business Administration. In 2009 I started to look at work-from-home opportunities on the Internet and after a lot of reading and some interesting research I discover a solution to my problem

FINDING THE SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM

I cannot say that I like having MS (who would?).

I can, however, say that I know very well what it is to live with MS and how to make the best out of living with it. That got me thinking: How can I share what I know and hopefully help others going through the same thing

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