My father stared into the Doctor’s eyes, trying to blink away his tears. The room was as quiet as the doctor waited for my father to respond, but my father could not speak or move- he was as still as a statue. He did not dare speak because he knew he would begin to cry if he did. The doctor’s words were still echoing in my father’s head: “I’m sorry Mr. Greengrass, but you have Multiple Sclerosis” When my father was in his early forties, he was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. Multiple Sclerosis, or MS, “is the most widespread disabling neurological condition of young adults around the world” (Higuera & Pietrangelo), and there have been around 2.5 million known cases. MS is an autoimmune disease that wears down the coating of nerve cells,
