Anyone else with balance problems from MS: [View All]

[Redstone]

Do you find yourself doing things to "cover up" when you're with people you haven't told about your MS?

The other day, my son and I took a walk with some neighbors through the salt marsh, where there was a "walkway" of wooden planks about a foot wide. As soon as I saw how narrow the walkway was, I made damn sure I walked behind everyone else (including my son) so they wouldn't see me wobbling off the planks about every ten feet and plonking a foot into the mud.

You'd think after 25 years, I'd be used to doing this. But I'm not. I still go to great lengths to avoid embarrasment and / or having to explain why I'm unstable.

Have you done that too? I bet you have. If it would make you feel better to talk about it here, please do. I'd be right happy to hear there are other DUers in the same boat.

Redstone