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Let us be aware of a disease that has no cure and needs testing,
There are only so many working on this disease, it is still molesting.
This disease is sometimes hard to diagnose,
Prevalent mostly in the Northern States the farther from the equator you live the better your chance of getting a dose.
To make people aware of this disease is what this week is all about,
I hope you will read this and do your part to share without a doubt.
It starts in many ways sometimes just slurring of words or tripping,
At times it starts worse by losing your sight that may come back trickling.
There are different types of interferon treatments that slows progress,
If you are lucky you to be prescribed one the disease for you it will suppress.
In 2000 I was diagnosed with Secondary Progressive MS and put on
Betaseron Interferon Beta-1b and it has worked great for me,
Some have to keep changing medicines until one initiates to help, there
Is no guarantee.
The medicines I have to take to help control this disease are quite
Expensive, the Lord has been good that we have insurance to help.
The Betaseron is a shot that goes right under the skin I take one every
Other night.
Sometimes it makes me want to do more than yelp.
You must have a MRI of regions of your brain every one to two years,
This way they keep up with how the progression or regression appears.
The longer you have it you can develop worse symptoms.
Being in a wheelchair, having to take medicine intravenously, and losing
So many freedoms.
The doctor first told me when I asked what to expect that within three years I would be in a wheelchair,
The medicine and prayers have worked miracles for me I am aware.
The doctor asked me what I was doing different when I walked into his
Office without a cane,
I told him I had many people praying for me and my prayers have been answered and he told me to stay in that lane.
I want to get the word out that this terrible disease is alive and
well,
That is why I did this as a challenge this year; I wish every poet would respond that under this tree do dwell.
Learn about this disease and try to get your local paper your poem to print.
If you wish take up money wherever you work or from friends and family, then find your local MS chapter and to them present.
Visit this site or the National Multiple Sclerosis Society at http://www.nationalmssociety.org they also have a lot of information
And you can find a local chapter there.
Montel Williams has a program on the web at ww.montelms.org where
You can donate and get very much information on the disease. He is
Very involved in the research and finding a cure for this dreaded disease.
Please message me if you write a poem or story and I will list it here.
These poets have taken time to write so please take a moment to read and review their poems.
My thanks and sincere appreciation to these Poets Participating:
1)Writerdreams....................The MS Cause
2)John Henry.......................That M.S. Thing
3)Dee....................................Made Aware~Multiple Schlerosis
4)joeysgirl1..........................MS~Become Aware
5)Juvie.................................Multiple Sclerosis Awareness (Acrostic)
6)Christophersea..................Malevolent Serpent
7)Susanne M. Psyris............I Weep for you in Silence
8)W.E. Mitchell...................MS
9)Keith................................MS - Gary, his brother has MS and sends a message
10)Dickson.........................M.S. Week {for Janice}
11)callednow......................Predawn
12)Chrissianne...................Janice's Multiple Sclerosis Challenge - A Double Haiku
13)ShieldOfSouls................Enemy Within - Janice's MS Challenge
14)Mollie............................MS....
15)GJS...............................Putting Concern to Rest About My MS
16)dahmom.......................We Can Make A Difference-MS Awareness
17)Joree Williams.............My Wondrous Friend Helen (listed below) Joree is a poet friend that is not on this site but wrote this for me by way of mattelois (Nancy Childers)
My wondrous friend Helen
♥
My wondrous friend Helen
Lives with inner grace and
Multiple Sclerosis
Her determination
Gets for her life’s trophy
My wondrous friend Helen
Walking is difficult
So with patience each day
And to spite the disease
She walks through life’s archway
My wondrous friend Helen
Each day she lives with pain
Her feet go numb at night
Need take care when rising
If it’s before daylight
My wondrous friend Helen
Writes to ease inner pain
Her poetry I praise
Each line is elegant
This artist does amaze
My wondrous friend Helen
Lives life to the fullest
In any circumstance
Whomever she does meet
Their soul she will enhance
♥
In honor of Helen McManus
©3/9/2010 Joree Williams
18)Char...............IT CAN HAPPEN TO THE BEST[poem for MS]
19)agnespaddy...........................Putting The Pieces Together
© Revised 3/7/2010 Janice McCullough Parker
©3/5/2009 Janice McCullough Parker
