Bay View Brookfield Cedarburg Cudahy Elm Grove Fox Point Franklin Glendale Greendale Greenfield Hales Corners Hartford Kenosha Menom. Her vision is so poor that she relies on books on tape and audio text on her computer. She uses a wheelchair or a walker because of a recent knee replacement and has lost her manual dexterity to the point where she must type with one finger. Yet this is a woman pursuing her PhD in urban studies. Bhupendra Khatri, M.D., specializes intreating MS patients and has achieved international status for his research on the subject.
Symptoms range from tingling and numbness to paralysis and blindness.
Winters, who was diagnosed at age 20, talks openly about the unpredictability of MS and its series of relapses and remissions. One day you lose your vision. Then you regain it for a time. You can imagine the effect this has on your self-identity. Winters is coping with her disease with a series of therapies.