Personal Narrative: Urban Essence Salon & Spa

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Did you know that Urban Essence Salon & Spa supports the National MS Society, Greater Delaware Valley Chapter?

Not many people know that I have MS. Yes its true! In 2003, I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. As a matter of fact in 1998 I had what is called and exacerbation. I developed Optic Neuritis in my right eye. "At the disease onset, individuals with MS might experience a variety of symptoms including numbness, tingling, pain, weakness, and balance problems, but visual symptoms are the presenting symptom up to 50% of the time. Over the course of the disease, virtually 100% of those with MS will have some visual problem, including visual loss and/or various distortions of vision. As with other neurological symptoms in MS, these visual problems can come and go, fluctuate in severity, or be permanent."

Over the course of the weekend I gradually "went blind" in my right eye. That Monday I went to the Scheie Eye Institute at Penn Presbyterian Medical
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I thought I was going to be stricken to a wheelchair and most of all I thought I would never be able to work again. As a result I wanted to have my own business. I wanted to be in control of my destiny. And at the same time I was already tossing around the idea of having my own line of bath & body products.

For the past 13 years I have had the pleasure of being treated by Dina Jacobs, M.D. With the help of my husband Timothy, my family, my doctor and the medicine that I take, I have had very few bumps in the road.

1. They Check Your Reflexes
1. They Check Your Reflexes
Since the inception of Urban Essence Salon & Spa we thought it would only be right to give to the National MS Society because if it were not for MS our bath & body company would not have come to life. So anytime you make a purchase using coupon code "UESSMS" we will donate 20% of your total purchase to the National MS Society. It's that simple and easy to support a cause that affect so many

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