Christina Applegate gives heartbreaking update on how her MS diagnosis has impacted her daughter
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Christina Applegate gives heartbreaking update on how her MS diagnosis has impacted her daughter
Posted by mlg1981
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This is so heartbreaking.
Christina is so very brave. I wish her nothing but the best.
God this is so damn sad. 🙁
It’s good to see her allow her daughter have these feelings, as sad and horrible as it all is. So many would tell the kid to suck it up. It’s refreshing to see otherwise.
Wishing the family peace. ❤️
my mom has MS. she used to give talks to patient support groups about how MS will impact your family. i thought i was doing a good job at being strong for her since i knew her struggles were out of her control. i found one of her presentations open on the computer. i was wrong. she knew exactly how much i was hurting. which made me hurt more, since i felt so bad for making her feel bad.
that was 15 years ago. my mom is doing amazing, all things considered. she and my dad still travel around the world and go to music festivals. they just go slowly and sit in the ADA seating. she is really lucky in that her movement hasn’t been impacted much, and we are grateful for that every day since a new lesion could always appear.
My husband has MS and the good days are great, and bad days hurt my heart. His frustration and sadness at not being able to do simple things, like walk ten feet are crushing to see. I can’t imagine what it must be like as a daughter to see that in your parent.
I appreciate her being so open about this disease. It affects everyone so differently, but it’s comforting to know other people are in the same boat. Feels less isolating and it can be a very isolating disease.
Let’s give a quick shoutout to Christina Applegate
I had everything taken away from me, too. CRPS in my case, and hardly anyone knows about it, but it’s the most painful illness known to mankind. MS is horrible. I feel for her so deeply.
My mother suffered with MS for 30 years. My heart goes out to both her and her daughter, and kudos to her for sharing with the public.
I’ve always appreciated her humor and her candor and her honesty about her MS and how it affects her and her family is valuable.
My mom has MS and she was diagnosed when I was a baby so I don’t remember a mom without MS and that’s a difference for a kid like Sadie who has to adapt to a diagnosis later when they know a before and after.
You do learn how to adopt and there’s a certain flexibility, but of course there are trade-offs and things that you miss.
(I also have MS and I was diagnosed in my 30s. I don’t have kids, though not for lack of wanting. )
This is exactly how it feels to be a mom with MS. I wanna do all the things but I know I can’t and it’s not fair to me or my kids but I had no idea this was gonna happen to me.
I feel this so much. Half of my childhood was healthy mom, the other half mobility stricken good day/bad day mom. I have such vitriol for an awful disease that took my mother from me.