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Description of  Uncomfortably Numb: a memoir about the life-altering diagnosis of multiple sclerosis

About losing ones life as it was once imagined, and the ultimate, uneasy peace thats achieved with the permanent uncertainty which accompanies living with a chronic illness.It begins with numbness on her left leg. Then it spreads. Even though an MRI finds a mass on her brainstem, it takes two more years for Meredith OBrien to learn what is causing that numbness. Months after her 65-year-old mother dies from a fast-moving cancer, weeks after her father is hospitalized and she experiences an unexpected job change, she learns she has multiple sclerosis.Suddenly, Meredith, a married mother of three teens, has to figure out how to move forward into a life she no longer recognizes. Reimagining her life as a writer and an educator, as a mother and a spouse, she has to adjust to the restrictions MS imposes on her. It is a life, altered.