Your stories
Despite a long, successful career in business, I never felt I had a purpose other than helping to raise the stock price of the Fortune 200 company I worked for. Since progressive MS forced me to "retire" on disability last year I've had the good luck to become a Movement Ambassador. Now everyone I meet is a potential "customer" to be "sold" on MS. Now I feel successful many times each day! Anyone who sees me in my wheelchair and says, "you look so good," gets a sales pitch about MS. Sometimes they become volunteers or walkers on my team. WOW! Who knew?
-- David Chaikin
What did you want to be when you grew up? A doctor? A banker? A mother or father? My dreams included being a teacher. Not just any teacher — I wanted to be "Teacher of the Year." It would take a lot of time and dedication to earn that honor, but I was willing to work towards my dream.
In 1995, the week I was graduating from college, I found out that I had MS. "Teacher of the Year" dreams went out the window for me, or so I thought. No, I have not won this specific award from my teaching peers, and I probably won't. But I do know that I have inspired and taught many people since I have been diagnosed. Maybe I will win "Teacher of the Year" as an MS ambassador? If I can teach one person just one thing about MS, I will be the "master teacher." Are my dreams different than they were before MS? You bet! But it has taken me different places and given me different dreams than I ever would have had, had I not been challenged with MS.
-- Sandi Domine