It’s hard to conceptualize, but Multiple Sclerosis doesn’t hold the market on our health concerns. In fact, we see other health care providers a lot more often than we connect with our neurologist.
For real.
On the surface, these scheduled check-ins often have nothing to do with our chronic disease of the central nervous system. But it doesn’t mean MS isn’t lurking in the background each time we visit our other doctors.
Join us as we contemplate the realities we were dealing with as we prepared for our pending appointments with Jennifer’s gynecologist, Dan’s podiatrist and our shared dentist. You get an inside look into issues like what Jennifer fears the most about each of her doctor visits and why Dan rarely tells new doctors about his MS.
And here is the link to the interesting article we discussed about doctors who avoid treating patients with disabilities: For Many Disabled Patients, the Doctor Is Often Not In