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Love Hate

MS

Mostly this article was about her love for how MS set her apart from others. However, it did not consist of complaints about the everyday stuff that comes with being crippled. She didnt let MS stop her from life. She used a comparison of two women she knows

On Being A Cripple

Nancy Mairs

Lady 2

Lady 1

Nancy

Diagnosed when she was 18

Plays Bridge, embroiders, swims, works

Took to her bed years ago

Traveled to Germany to accompany husband in the war.

Refuses to go out

Lives Life

Spends Time With Husband

Has fun with friends

Married her college sweetheart

Makes husband stay home too.

Present By: Daisha Haynesworth

MS

What MS Did

Still She Continues Her Life

In the article, Mairs talks about how she acquired Multiple Sclerosis, "a chronic degenerative disease of the central nervous system, in which the myelin that sheathes the nerves is somehow eaten away and scar tissue forms in its place, interrupting the nerves' signals." (Mairs 30).

  • First she began to trip over things and drop things
  • She consulted a neurologist and she was told she had a brain tumor. She didn't after retesting.
  • A year and a half later she developed a blurred spot in one of her eyes
  • Then she started having episodes of disseminated in space and time caused the referral for the diagnosis of MS.

The Word Cripple

  • Writing
  • Teaching
  • Raising Children
  • Animals
  • Reading
  • Publicly Speaking About MS
  • Playing Bridge
  • She chose cripple to call herself crippled.
  • She knows the term makes people "wince"
  • Shes unsure why she prefers it but she just does
  • She says " I want them to see me as a tough customer, one to whom the fates/gods/virus have not been kind, but who can face the brutal truth of her existence squarely. As a cripple I swagger." (Mairs, 29)

Humor

  • She gets through life by having a sense of humor
  • She said some people with MS can lose it along with their bladder control, strength, sensitivity to touch and much more.
  • Falling, as she did in the beginning and with her friend.
  • Her left leg is so weak at this point that she has to walk with a brace or her electrified kiddie car. (a wheel chair)
  • She no longer has use of her left hand

and her right side is starting to weaken too.

  • She still also has the blurr spot she got when she was first diagnosed at twenty eight

Family

Is overly supportive of her they dont baby her or excessively nice to her because she crippled .

"Hates being crippled"

They are not embarrassed of her bring her around

and take her places

  • Her Children
  • She felt because shes unable to do most physical things that her husband would leave her and children would deny her
  • However her children and husband sound a little less than angels from what she has in her mind that they would do

Reality

Extreme Fatigue

Causes her to miss important things in her life and makes it hard for her to keep her humor.

  • Shes quite a realist
  • She talks about like how she knows she'll never run again
  • How she wants to go camping but knows it s not possible

Nancy Mairs

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