While I feel honored and inspired by everyone I work with, once in a while a special story comes along that really makes me grateful for getting to work in the health field. I have been lucky to work with a woman named Kimberly Hodge, who was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis at the age of 28. She has written me several inspiring emails about her story that I would like to share below. Ms. Hodge’s Multiple Sclerosis (MS): After three years of misdiagnosis, Kim Hodge was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 1999. For nine months that year, she could barely walk. She was only 28 at the time of her diagnosis. For the coming months and years, she suffered numbness in various parts of her body, lost strength, gained weight due to her restricted mobility and the onset of depression, and was told by doctors she might need to spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair. She must also receive a weekly injectable medication that causes nume...
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