Re: MS Patient Faces Hearing for Medical Marijuana


Rose;

Great to see you back! Missed your articulate, informative posts!

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Don't get me wrong, I feel for the guy, but this article starts right
out implying that MS is a fatal disease. That, I think, is sending the
wrong message.

M.S. *can* be a fatal disease; it's simply that most people who have it
die of other things before the M.S. gets them.

the semantics chage, depending on whether one wants to stress that M.S.
isn't a death sentence (it's generally not, at least not around the
time of most folks' early course), OR, whether one wants to stress that
it's a damned serious disease that needs research.

Exactly. You CAN die of MS; the damn disease is attacking the central
nervous system, and if it gets into the brain sections that control
breathing, heart beat, or other essential functons, well, it's
good-bye.

We had a young woman writing here who died of MS at age 36. Remember
Julie, aka JD Gargoyle? She just stopped breathing. Just stopped.

Quite a loss; I still miss her to this day. Damn this disease.

Sylvia

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