Field Trip 09/28/2009
 So I got this flyer in the mail last week from the Providence Brain Institute, where I go to have all my brain needs met. There was a forum dealy thing happening not too far from where I live, and Dr. Stanley Cohan (my specialist) was the speaker. "What Every Patient Should Know About MS" was the title, so I figured what the hell. I registered to attend one of these quite a while back, and didn't end up going, so I figured I might try to make this one. For some reason I felt like it was something I should do, at least once. My biggest concern about going to this thing (yep, I like to make mountains out of molehills) was the fact that I figured there would probably not be a many younger people there. Well, that was an understatement. There was like, none. I got there and peaked in the doorway to about ten round tables, filled with older people. And we wonder why there is this idea out there that MS isn't a disease of teenagers and twenty or even thirty somethings? Jesus, it's because we don't show up to anything! Us younger folk need something a little more enticing than a "free lunch" to get our asses out the door. Anyhow I walked in and immediately felt like some sort of a leper, haaahahaha. I'm supposed to be in a room full of people who have the same shitty ass disease that I do, my comrades, but no, I felt completely out of place. I'm sure much of the confusion I saw in the faces of my fellow MSers was in my own head, but I'd say there was definitely some there. |
