April 8, 2011
Newburyport MA MS Walk
Soon
a crowd
will gather
to walk five miles.
Some will walk it strong
some will lean on canes
some have walkers
some scooters
some hold
hands.
All
will walk
together
raising money
to pay for research
seeking for a cure
chasing MonSters
called M.S.
"Many
scars"
Brain lesions
leave one blind
spinal lesions
weaken legs
nerve damage
slurring words
losing touch
so much fear
what will be?
So much pain
so much guilt
how can I
not ask why?
The
Monster
under my
bed is always
poised to cause relapse.
It has no one cause
and so no cure
Still, we wait
and we
walk.
There
are so
many more
diseases than
dollars for research.
Will you walk with us
and donate some
time or cash
to the
task?
Multiple Sclerosis is a little-known disease, around for several
hundred years, affecting half a million Americans and as many or
more innocent people across the world. Patients used to be sent to
bed, told to rest, not to exert, and expect to be in a wheel chair
within a few years. Today, patients are advised to exercise
carefully, not to overheat, and to take painful injections for a
tentative but potential 33% delaying of the inevitable progression.
"Sclerosis" means scars, lesions on the brain and the spinal cord,
and the speculative reasons are many. There is currently no cure,
and no sure delay of progression. Some call it an orphan disease;
one not understood enough to guide proper treatment. It is in
competition with many other diseases for research funding. Its
unpredictable progression is a trial for both the patient and for
the family, who never know what will happen, when it will happen,
whether it will be temporary or permanent, or how severe the next
attack will be.
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