Michelle's story about her father & MS - that's the real story about people with Multiple Sclerosis

[LynneSin]

We've been hearing these past months about Ann Romney and her MS. One of her treatments is the dressage horses she's paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to obtain.

Thing is this - for most people with MS, they don't have opportunities like Ann Romney. They don't have access to unlimited wealth to get the top of the line healthcare and treatment available.

They are like Fraiser Robinson, Michelle's Father, who struggled with MS everyday while still having to work in order to take care of his family and help give his children a chance to attend college. I'm sure Mr. Robinson would have loved to been able to stay at home and have others do the work around the house for him, but he didn't come from a family of millionaires. He was an everyday guy like you and me.

I work with 2 people who have MS and it's not easy for them but not working their job isn't an option. They need the income so their family can make ends meet and hopefully save a little for their kids and retirement.

I suspect there was a reason that Michelle talked about her father's MS, that's become front and center this election.

She did a wonderful job.

[closeupready]

1. She singlehandedly delivered a TON of independent votes,

IMO.

[NMDemDist2]

2. wish i could rec this post twice n/t

[ananda]

3. Good point!

nt

[CountAllVotes]

4. No two cases of MS are alike

It is wrong to lump everyone with MS into one bucket as they are all different.

Her father died from complications of MS in his 50s. That is very sad I think.

Maybe if he did not have to work so long and hard he would have lasted longer I often think.

Many people with MS do not have the option to continue to work after such a diagnosis. Being sick has that effect on many people, like being unable to walk, talk, eat or see.

I believe that all of these great looking people they show do nothing for those people that can no longer work that have MS because being so sick will do that to you quickly. MS is an esp. cruel illness and the cause is still unknown. That is the reality of it.

They should seek a cure, that is what I think instead of parading around "fine" cases of people with this horrid crap.

[nolabear]

5. Damn Skippy.

She was just plain brilliant.

[SoCalDem]

6. If only they had gotten him a dressage horse,

and an herbalist...he would have been CURED !!

[Chorophyll]

7. Kick.

<---not a dressage horse, btw

[Wednesdays]

8. Kick and Rec, for the voice of experience

[ismnotwasm]

9. My husband has MS

He can no longer work, but you know what? He volunteers, he reaches out to those in need, he does his best to base his self worth on how much he can give of himself, not what he can do. I know no finer man.

I have never in my life been moved by a political speech as I was by Michelle Obama's, and when I made an indelicate sound trying not to cry, my husbands hand was there, reaching out to hold mine.

[Odin2005]

10. I have an aunt with MS.

Robme would not care if she ended up on the street.

[CountAllVotes]

11. You'd be surprised how many feel that way

They want to be rid of those afflicted with sicknesses. They fear them. Therefore, they'd like to simply be rid of them or shove them into nursing homes -- never to be seen again by anyone.

It isn't must RMONEY (but yes, he is a good example) that is like this, there are many others sadly. Why? Sick society IMO.

Change? I hope so, I really do.