A place in the work force. (In This Issue).Once upon a time, people with MS were urged to retire at diagnosis, and not just by worried family members. Physicians warned against all strenuous activity and told their MS patients to treat themselves with rest, rest, and more rest. In truth, there was pathetically little the medical community could offer beyond the devastating dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. recommendation to live as an invalid. Take off your hats to the pioneers who said to hell with that! They are individuals with MS, like Jimmie Heuga--and they are compassionate and canny can·ny adj. can·ni·er, can·ni·est 1. Careful and shrewd, especially where one's own interests are concerned. 2. Cautious in spending money; frugal. 3. Scots a. physicians, like Dr. Labe Scheinberg of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine
The Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM) is a graduate school of Yeshiva University. It is a private medical school located in the Jack and Pearl Resnick Campus of Yeshiva University in the Morris Park in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , and Drs. Jack Petajan and Richard Hicks Hicks , Edward 1780-1849. American painter of primitive works, notably The Peaceable Kingdom, of which nearly 100 versions exist. , both of whom conducted and promoted clinical research on exercise and MS. Above all, they are Sylvia Lawry, who founded a worldwide movement to fight MS. Her lifework life·work n. The chief or entire work of a person's lifetime. Noun 1. lifework - the principal work of your career calling, career, vocation - the particular occupation for which you are trained is celebrated in a new book, aptly titled Courage. (See page 20.) Today a whole panoply pan·o·ply n. pl. pan·o·plies 1. A splendid or striking array: a panoply of colorful flags. See Synonyms at display. 2. of medications, strategies, physical and psychological therapies, and even a few surgical interventions, are available to damp down MS and its symptoms, to manage what can't be quelled, and to comfort what can't be well managed. The work goes on. A cure still eludes us. Many serious MS problems still have no one-step answer. Twenty-two professional organizations involved in MS care (including the Society) formed the MS Clinical Council to produce guidelines on the best answers to date, based on available evidence and professional consensus. The professional algorithms for MS fatigue management they produced have just been translated for people with MS as Fatigue: What You Should Know. They are available both on our Web site and in print from our chapters. Fatigue bears heavily on MS in the workplace. Research shows it is the number one reason why people with MS retire early. The National MS Society believes that everyone dealing with MS can remain productive. We're convinced that productivity doesn't begin or end in the work force, with money-making as its sole measure. But far too many people with MS are not in the work force who would like to be, because they missed out on resources that might have helped them. The Society office nearest you can connect you to resources that might make the critical difference. Call 1-800-FIGHT-MS, Option #1. Martha King, Editor, InsideMS |
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