The Background

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…