Persuasive Essay

I think it is important to know about MS, and also other diseases such as leukemia or the different types of cancer. My mother is very close to me, and I know I can depend on her for anything. So of coarse I was devastated when I found out she had Multiple Sclerosis aka MS. It's not a deadly disease but it seems to be a very tiring one.

At first she didn't even know what the decease was until she did a little research. When I looked into it I was very interested. I found out that it affects an estimated 2.5 million people worldwide and is one of the major causes of disability in adults under the age of 65. Approximately 330,000 people in the United States are afflicted with multiple sclerosis and about 200 new cases are diagnosed each week. Multiple sclerosis is typically diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 50, and the disease is two to three times as common in women as in men. IT also has nothing to do with genetics like most other diseases. Oh and the weird thing is that it isn't a disease that you can die from like cancer. It's very different.

Multiple sclerosis is a chronic disease of the central nervous system that is characterized by inflammation of nerves in the brain and spinal cord. It also causes a process of loss or destruction of the nerve's myelin sheath, which functions to insulate the nerve and speed conduction of nerve signals. This happened to my mom about a month later after she was diagnosed. She told me at first her left leg got weak and now she can walk but with a limp. Her whole left side is basically dead. Yes, she can still move it, but not as well as before.

I know not too many people are interested and don't care if it's not them, and I was the same way. Some people that have it say it's hard to deal with it because a) there's no cure you just have to take daily shots, and b) its not put out to the world enough like other diseases. I wasn't real fond about it until I saw something on TV about this teenager whose mom had MS and they had a fundraiser at their high school. But it really is important to know about any type of disease.