In the past 11 months that I have been diagnosed with MS, I have learned some bizarre facts about some people in my small little town.
Since being diagnosed I have learned of 3 other females in my town that have MS! Two of the women were born and raised all within 5 minutes of me. Is that not weird. The third has apparently had this disease for sometime now, but we are all women between the ages of 20 and 35. I’m puzzled. A lot actually! Multiple Sclerosis is not contracted through the air or from your surroundings. They asked me multiple times if I had any history of it in my family while in the hospital. Odd huh?
I think about this all the time. What are the chances…the odds.
You have to realize my town is very small. Everyone knows everyone!
One girl is my exact age, we grew up together, best friends during grade school. The other one of my high school friends sister, I stayed the night with her many times. The last is an acquaintance. I haven’t ever met her in person, but we have mutual friends and she lives in the same town I have lived in my whole life. I’m not oblivious to the fact that people get sick…MS is different in everyone, and that holds true to this case. We all have different symptoms, struggling with our disease differently. It’s just an interesting fact to me that I dwell on sometimes when I think about my disease. Life is just funny I guess…that old saying “ You don’t think it’ll ever happen to you” rings in my ears often. Then when so many others share their diagnosis, it rings louder!
Am I crazy for thinking this is odd? Maybe MS is born and bred in the hills of Eastern Kentucky? Scary thought huh?
