Repost another MS rant....

Thursday, April 7, 2005


Today's Quote

We are not here to be successful.

We are here to be faithful.

Mother Teresa

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I have a real life personal issue that is driving me batty....it has to due with my MS so I feel that this is the place to let it all hang out. My employer recently tried to get Keyman Insurance on me (that is life insurance on a key employee that pays to the employer if the employee dies) even though he knows full well about my MS, brain tumor, thyriod (shoot me now please) and the rest of it.

WELL>>> of course I was denied and not the least bit suprprised by this bit of news but it still hurt my feelings. Imagine that, a rational and intelligent woman, hurt because some company denied her life insurance. Humpf.

So what did I do? I called and asked them what exactly caused them to turn me down. (I can hear the crowd of duhs....quiet down folks, I'm typing here.) Anyway they said that the reason they turned me down was because of the things in my file from my current neurologist but they would not tell me what. So I called her office and had them fax me copies of just her file notes; know what I found???

MS sucks. Really.

This disease is one that CHANGES and is not set in stone. It can appear and disappear on MRI's and since I did not take my last 7 MRI's with me to this appointment the darn radiologist did not have anything to compare and contrast to....thus the lovely soul misread what he/she saw. The lesions can fade, the ones on my brain are less "active" than the ones on my spine and this person said that the was no concurence of MS on my brain but maybe I had had a stroke. *The MS does show active on my spine though.* I almost hit the roof of a commerical bluiding when I read the line about possibly having a stroke.

HEEELLLLOOOOOOOO Einstein......relasping remitting MS means that it can get better and worse. I asked my Dr. why she said absoultely nothing during my numerous appointments with her about this stroke thing and she said because she had read all my other MRI's she knew the radiologist was wrong.

She knew it was just the nature of MS.

Ok, but the insurance agency thinks I will die from a STROKE and would have insured me if THAT mistake had been omitted.



On the other hand, it kind of creeps me out to have my employer carrying life insurance on me that would benefit them. I keep looking over my shoulder for Guido.



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