- Jill Jan 2008 Denmark, Western Australia A life-changing experience for an emergency nurse I received a phone call from neurology outpatients September 2006 following an urgent MRI. The receptionist asked me to come the next day for the results and to bring my husband. I had the MRI after losing the use of my right arm and leg, my memory, my balance, bladder and bowel control and everything else it felt like at the time. I had been though a stressful time preceding my relapse and this was a terrifying experience which lasted for months, slightly relieved by a short course of intravenous steroids. I am 37 and I knew I had MS and had known for a long time. Things hadn't been right for 10 years and after 3 attacks of optic neuritis and reassurances MS was unlikely I knew that it was something other than just neuritis. People laughed at my clumsiness and inability to even make a cup of coffee without spilling the coffee, sugar, water and then milk and then most of the time I'd knock the cup over too. Hanging out the washing after my first baby I found it impossible to hold the washing and put the peg on without dropping it. It was very frustrating. My right hand felt as if it didn't belong to me. I have been a nurse for a long time and as a student nurse in the UK I was particularly interested in MS. I remember my