Coping With Myasthenia Gravis

I was 20 years old when I starting realizing that my body was changing. I was having a lot of trouble with my eyes, then my arms and legs were very weak and the problems kept coming. I decided to go to the eye doctor and she said my vision was fine. so let it go. days would pass and I couldn’t hold a brush in my hand or put my hair up. I then started falling a lot more because I had no feeling in my legs. so I started to worry.

Well in September 2005, my husband and I had a baby. She was 2 months old and I was holding her, had my husband not been there I would have dropped her. my arms had no feeling and I thought I was holding her but I wasn’t. the next day I scheduled an appointment with my regular doctor. He did some body tests on me and knew something was wrong. I then did 2 MRI’s and I had symptoms of MS and Lugarates… scary. My next appointment wasn’t until the following week and my husband and I went to walmart on a Monday night and I fell.

That night they admitted me to Lourdes Hospital in Lafayette and the Tuesday morning I did a spinal tap. nothing was there. I then did a cat scan still nothing. The thursday morning they called a neuroligist in to see me and it took him five minutes to diagnose me. He could tell by my eyes and the Friday morning November 11, 2005 I had the surgery. They were going to go through my throat but said it was to dangerous because they didn’t want to knick a vessel, so they opened me up completely, broke my breast bone, collapsed my lungs and removed my thymus gland. It has been 2 years since the surgery and I am in great health today. I was very blessed.