Hey Stan!

I met another 21 year old named Fallon on your MS News Channel's MySpace Page!

We now talk everyday, so that's awesome to have connected with someone who is basically the same as I.

We are both 21, both have MS and both are named Fallon... ironoic actually, but yet we have been talking and its awesome, we met on your page!

Fallon lives in New york and I live in Arkansas...so very far apart from one another. But we email each other daily, and she has been my inspiration . I am enagaged and will be married October 27, but it is so wonderful that I have met Fallon. It is rare in Arkansas to meet others who have Ms and very rare that they are the same age as myself or around my age. I know in my heart I am not alone in my daily struggles, but yet with someone your age,,,it helps you more than anything!

My fiance george is standing next to me in the photo. He is my best friend and showed me that MS isn't who I am, no matter how i feel, that the disease doesn't distingish my character and who I am.

I stay positive, outgoing, and never question things that i cant control. Thats the best advice I can give to anyone. Stay positive, dont sweat the small stuff and always smile!

I'm 21, have cancer and MS and have a spinal surgery under my belt, but I grew up! I now know what is truely important out of life...and its the best feeling in the world.

What you do is so wonderful for everyone of all ages. I just thank you a million times for what you do. A lot of people ae in the dark on MS as i was at first. You help so many with just a web site. Thank you on behalf of myself and so many others with MS!

*hugs*

Fallon


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A POEM WEITTEN BY FALLON:


I'm feeling quite tingly all over today,
It's really quite nice in a strange sort of way,
But then numbness creeps in, the tingliness goes
And all of a sudden I can't feel my toes.

By mid-afternoon it has spread to my knees,
Best go to the Doctor, "An appointment, please",
"Let's just wait and see as I haven't a clue,
It'll probably get better, or it may be just flu."

Two days later and still feeling numb,
Back to the Doctor, (as advised by my mum);
"Altered sensations, that's what you've got,
It'll sort itself out"; Has he lost the plot?

The next week, I'm back and at last my GP
Says see a Neurologist (whatever that may be);
There's a 3 month wait? Oh well what's money for?
The very next week I'm knocking at his door.

He prods me and pokes me with hammers & pins
He tests me for weakness and guess what, he wins;
You'll need a Lumbar puncture and an MRI scan
At last someone believes me, he's a very nice man!

The scan comes back normal, so I must be OK,
But first there's the spinal, oh please go away.
Inflammation shows up in my spinal cord,
"It may come back", I'm told, "of it's own accord".

"Now if it comes back, and it probably will,
Then you'll have MS, but not until.
So you've probably got it, but then maybe not,
Don't think about it", well at least not a lot.

A few months have gone by and the tingle's come back,
This time in my arms and a little round the back.
The bathroom it seems is my favourite place,
And suffice to say I'm not washing my face!

So back to the Neurologist, that very nice man,
Who says, "Well; this is it" (as nice as he can).
So here I am with "official" MS;
How will it progress? well that's anyone's guess.

Live day to day, you can't alter fate,
If you're tired, go to sleep, the washing can wait,
One thing I know, and I hope you can see;
I've got MS, but it's not having me!