Help Me Stand Up to MS and Diabetes

I am having to start a new effort to get aid for paying my health insurance  from BCBSTX. My monthly is $508 and the dollar amount I set to raise should cover all of  2019.

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Here is a short synopsis of whole diagnosis process from my first telling of it on Medium.

https://medium.com/@agmaldonado/the-story-of-my-relapsing-and-remitting-multiple-sclerosis-rrms-82744b09a629

The Story of my Relapsing and Remitting Multiple Sclerosis (RRMS)–

I was diagnosed with Relapsing and Remitting Multiple Sclerosis (RRMS) on June 12. Before that, I had been experiencing vision issues and a sense of vertigo, so I decided to seek help from a “Doc in a box.” That doctor cleared wax out my left ear (an ongoing symptom of allergies) and hoped that would help. Additionally, everyone I talked to and everything I read seemed to point to vertigo. I became increasingly concerned when the sense of vertigo faded, but my motion sickness was persistent. Then, on the weekend of June 10-11, my vision began flickering like I was watching a film on an old projector. The world looked like a jittery vintage movie.
I managed to get an appointment with Dr. Jadie Roberts at 1 p.m. on Monday at Kilgore Eye Center. Just a few months earlier, I had tested with nearly perfect vision, but my results this time were terrible. Dr. Roberts could find no physical reason for the decline, and expressed deep concern something worse could be going on beyond my eyes. He suspected a neurological issue, and recommended I go to an ER immediately, which I did as soon as I left his facility. My stepfather had driven me to the optometrist appointment for safety, so he took me to Longview Regional Medical Center.
Heeding Dr. Roberts’ concern, I noted that I had a neurological problem when I checked into the ER. The nurse asked me what was wrong, I said I had double vision, she then wrote that over where I wrote that on the form – seemingly dismissingly my deeper concerns. They drew some blood and said they would wait for results. After a lot of waiting, I got a CAT Scan and an MRI. I noticed the entourage of people with the ER doctor growing in size, and the radiologist’s group was noticeable large. I’ve read and watched way too much process-based fiction not to pick up on the fact that things were getting serious. The ER doctor said they were holding me overnight to run tests and start a treatment. I still had not been told a diagnosis.
Around 7 or 8 p.m., I got my private hospital room. I knew it was going to be overnight, but there was a doctor waiting that came in and said it would be multiple nights. Then, around 9 p.m., Dr. Rajani Cesar arrived and told me that I showed every sign of having Multiple Sclerosis. Immediately, so many symptoms I’ve had for the last several years made sense, even my seemingly freak loss of balance while playing basketball, which led to my broken hip a few years ago. An episode of short-term paralysis in reaction to taking
Zithromax May 20, 2013, seems to indicate the first major symptom my MS. A spinal tap taken the next day (which is as unpleasant as you’ve ever heard it was) eventually confirmed this diagnosis. Steroid treatments helped improve my condition and I have been recovering well enough from the episode. I have been cleared to drive, but have been hesitant to do so very much. A lot of questions remain about my career path and about how future episodes will manifest. However, I am thankful for the support and well wishes I have received since word of my diagnosis got out.