There was a time in my past when I new nothing about ms. I had my whole life planned
out and this thing called multiple sclerosis had never entered my consciousness. I
had heard about a couple of celebrities who had this thing that made them walk and
talk a little odd but other than that I had no idea what it was. I had planned a life where I was to be a traveling musician, married, 2,2 kids etc,
a pretty good life. One day, I fell out of love with music. I had been playing
since I was a kid and it just didnt really "do it" for me anymore.
Now what. I hadn't left myself a backup plan. I had just enough education to get by,
but that's it.
After searching around both internally and externally, I decided that, since I like
helping people, I would become a police officer. That’s a pretty logical step right?
I mean, what better job can you get when helping is what you like to do, and that is
what a police officer is there to do. So, off I go to get eye surgery, get an education
and some police type experience.
After year one of Criminal justice, I got a job working for a department store under
cover security catching shoplifters. The experience I received was exactly what I felt
I needed to further my career as a police officer. One day at work, I noticed my vision
was not 100% in my left eye. I was tired, I had been working a lot of hours and it
would be fine once I had a little more sleep right? Well, it went the opposite direction,
now what kind of security officer could I be with one eye? The first logical place to
go was to the eye doctor who performed the surgery, so I booked an appointment.
I arrived at my appointment ready to hear that the surgery didn’t go as well as we
had thought, or that there was something that needed a little correction. It was
pretty obvious once I sat in the chair and they had a chance to have a look inside
my eye, that there was something not exactly right. The doctor said that it wasn’t
the surgery that was the issue, but that I needed to see an eye specialist and
maybe get some medication. That was day one of the doctor visits…
