Wednesday 16th November: I met with the MS nurse who, unlike every other member of the medical profession, seemed to be happy that I’d found out my own information, and indeed named some medical reports and websites to read. She was treating me like an adult, and was happy to answer my (many) questions. She seemed confident that there were people out there (and pointed me to them) that could actually make a positive difference. She told me to fill in a tiredness log before I started to take the amantadine in order to gauge how well it works.
I told her I had chosen to go on Copaxone.
I was still having low moments about the diagnosis though – you have to have something seriously wrong with you for a medical person to come to your home.