MS

 

I am raising awareness for multiple sclerosis and have been for years. Better known as MS, it is an unpredictable, often disabling disease of the central nervous system. It interrupts flow of the information within the brain and between the brain and body. Patient symptoms vary and range from numbness and tingling, to blindness and paralysis. It affects more than 400,000 people in the United States.

 

Our bodies are in constant motion, moving information from the brain to the body. MS stops people from moving by attacking myelin, which protects normal nerve tissue. The damage keeps people from moving smoothly, both inside and out. Many have trouble imagining what life would be without the ability to move, but I know the effects of MS, as I have MS.

 

I will again take initiative to attend the Carroll County commissioners' meeting and speak with them regarding MS. I will ask them to accept a proclamation I constructed, and recognize Carroll County, being one of the 88 counties in Ohio, that March is MS Awareness Month in the state of Ohio, as signed into law by former governor Robert Taft, on March 2, 2006.

 

March will be another stepping stone with MS, as there has been announced a new FDA-approved oral medication, Ampyra. Currently the only prescribed MS medications are administered by injections. No information about the drug's cost has been released.

 

I ask for your help in raising MS awareness because this is a battle we can, and should win.

 

Edward L. Hale

 

Carroll County MS Activist

 

 

 

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