my list of possibilities for the first few hours. An urgent CAT scan and some blood tests the next day in Phoenix, Arizona excluded the most serious possibilities such as brain tumours or infections, and I was told that the double vision would likely resolve. Resolve it did over 10 days and I continued with my busy life for the next 2 years with no symptoms. My next batch of symptoms included transverse myelitis, loss of taste in half of my tongue, weakness in left leg and feeling like I was concussed. The diagnosis of MS came quickly after an MRI, spinal tap and evoked visual response test. MS had galloped into my life and I was warned that it was not likely to be a comfortable ride. The next three years were regularly interrupted by trips to hospital for episodes which included the loss of speech, severe vertigo (dizziness), severe incoordination and inability to walk, epilepsy-like attacks where I just stopped everything i.e. walking and talking for 30 seconds and this occurred regularly every 3 minutes, jaw pain which I thought was a tooth abscess initially and a long list of symptoms that could fill a small text book. I was quite depressed by the regularity and uncontrolled rate of attacks despite the best that medicine could offer at the time. Then I heard about George's first book at a Christmas lunch of MS ambassadors. I managed to find the book the next day and finished a first reading