My first blog
For my Final Senior Year project I wanted to introduce my class of 2018 to the MS society. This is an important topic to me because my Mom has MS and it's not just affecting her and her health its affecting my entire family, I feel like out of everyone in my family it has its biggest toll on me. I couldn't imagine life without my mom, she has always been there and some advanced stages of MS can lead to the person losing their ability to control their movement. Some of the issues is that many Doctors and Scientist don’t have a cure for this disease and in advance stages people are at risk of losing their lives.
My Mom, Nikki has MS and I’m very nervous as to what can happen. I’ve seen my mom in pain many times and it upsetting to see the one you love the most in pain. My fear is that her condition might get worse and that she’ll end up losing the ability to move. I don’t want to see my mom like that, seeing what she goes though now is already unbearable. MS is a disease where the immune system eats away the protective cover for the nerves which can cause damage to the nerves obviously. MS affects more than 2.3 million people worldwide. MS can affect the Brain, the Spinal Cord and the Optic Nerves, In my mom case MS is affecting her Brain.
When Doctors did an MRI in 2008 they found out that she has white spots on her Brain and she has really bad Migraines, she sometimes feels very weak and has tingling in her foot things like that. They diagnosed her with MS. I was only 7 at the time and didn't really understand what the problem was with my mom, I just knew that she was very sick. Me, Mom, and my little brother been taking part in fundraisers that they organize during the summer and I believe that this is important for people to know because I think that learning about this information and sharing it to others will have an effect on them and maybe one day they can find a cure for MS to help the millions of people who have it, such as my mom. They have lots of medication to help treat the symptoms of MS but all of them are though IV and my mom actually goes to the doctor once a month and gets her medicine. She has to take a lot of other pills to help her with the symptoms.
I have many questions that I would hopefully get an answer to one day. I just wonder why and how people get MS and where does it comes from. I know that it's not transferable so that's a good thing. Like my mom I sometimes get bad migraines and I went to doctors don't be worried they just said I need to wear my glasses because I'm straining my eyes to see. I'm wondering what I could do to help my mom and help her through this. I left some links at on the contact page, hope you guys check them out.
My second blog
Previously in blog post I've told you guys about what MS is and how it affects my life personally and the people around me.I never told you guys how I feel about it, I was too young to understand what was happening to me I also told you that my Mom, Nikki has MS and some of the things that she goes through daily, the medicines and some of the symptoms that she has. Some new information that I've found was that MS is actually more common in women, I gotten this information from a Doctor that I interviewed for the original research part of the Project. I choose to interview a neurologist at the Thomas Jefferson Hospital Department of Neurology.You guys can check out the link here My Interview. Be aware this video isn't the best you may hear baby noises in the background( My godsister).
I find the experience of talking to a real doctor was very informative. I didn't ask the doctor about my Mom's condition I didn't want to really get too deep into that. Now that I have somebody else's perspective on the topic not just what the internet has to tell me about MS I think that I have a better understanding about it. I think that going out and actually interviewing a real Doctor, someone who has studied and is passionate about helping those who are really ill such as my Mom. Somethings that I was still thinking about is what the brain looks like or the spinal cord looks like after MS takes its toll on those parts of the body.
I've found many ways to get my class and community to get involved Take Action if you guys are interested you can help, I took part in the MS walk and this is my 4th year doing the walk and I have to say it was worth the cause.
I find the experience of talking to a real doctor was very informative. I didn't ask the doctor about my Mom's condition I didn't want to really get too deep into that. Now that I have somebody else's perspective on the topic not just what the internet has to tell me about MS I think that I have a better understanding about it. I think that going out and actually interviewing a real Doctor, someone who has studied and is passionate about helping those who are really ill such as my Mom. Somethings that I was still thinking about is what the brain looks like or the spinal cord looks like after MS takes its toll on those parts of the body.
I've found many ways to get my class and community to get involved Take Action if you guys are interested you can help, I took part in the MS walk and this is my 4th year doing the walk and I have to say it was worth the cause.
My Third blog
In the last 2 blog post I talked about my Mom's condition and I shared a link to my interview that I did with the Doctor, if you didn't get a chance to see the video Here it is. In my first blog I introduced all of you to MS and what it is and how it affects the people around me my first and my second blog post talks about the research and inquiry that I did, you can view my second blog post is about the things that are being done to help raise awareness for MS, like I mentioned before millions of people have MS and they do know about fundraisers such as walks all over the country to raise money. They have a bunch of things that they do throughout the entire year Visit this Website for more info. Doing these fundraisers they raise thousands of dollars and the money goes toward research and maybe one day finding a cure for MS, all hopes are high that one day they will.
My Mom and I and a couple of other family members did the MS walk about 1 week ago here is a photo that I took from the top of the Art Museum Steps. That can be found on the community page.
Before the walks start they have little booths set up for your convenience and they give you water bottles. Once you return to the Museum they give you food to take on the way back home. I felt like doing this project was very interesting in a way, but what really interested me about this project was that it just wasn't some essay or presentation. Going out into the world and actually making a change really changed my view about Project Learning.This project was like a stepping stone into someday changing the world. The idea and things that other people did like coming up with hashtags and making accounts on Twitter for their senior project was really creative and I'm actually happy that we have the choice of choosing what we want to do because I wouldn't have learned so much about the disease that she's fighting.
My Mom and I and a couple of other family members did the MS walk about 1 week ago here is a photo that I took from the top of the Art Museum Steps. That can be found on the community page.
Before the walks start they have little booths set up for your convenience and they give you water bottles. Once you return to the Museum they give you food to take on the way back home. I felt like doing this project was very interesting in a way, but what really interested me about this project was that it just wasn't some essay or presentation. Going out into the world and actually making a change really changed my view about Project Learning.This project was like a stepping stone into someday changing the world. The idea and things that other people did like coming up with hashtags and making accounts on Twitter for their senior project was really creative and I'm actually happy that we have the choice of choosing what we want to do because I wouldn't have learned so much about the disease that she's fighting.