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You can keep it to yourself, but you could also call a support team like the team at MS LifeLines. They are there to support the MS community and give good advice.
I have worked enough and I am happy to be touring the country speaking about living with MS to give people inspiration and motivation to help themselves.
I would trip and get a little tingling in my arm, but then-like a cold sore-it would go away.
There are things that you can do today that, years ago, there was nothing. The community today needs to know that with MRI and the current medications the view is good.
I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking.
Being in show business and being rejected so much from the get go, starting out being an actress, I always had hope.
Take a step back, evaluate what is important, and enjoy life.
My doctor said, for want of a better word, now that we've got medicines out here that can help, let's put you on one of them and say we're treating MS.
I knew Richard Pryor years ago. But I have not seen him lately. He does have a more progressive form of the disease.
I have been off the motorcycles for about 20 years now, but that doesn't mean I can't still do it.
I have an enormous fondness for delicious food. It's very comforting.
I got a diagnosis in '99. I didn't know what was wrong with me for years. I had as long as 10 years when I had no symptoms.
In addition to having a good partnership with a good doctor, you have to do some of the work yourself. Go online, read about it, and find out what you can tolerate.
One of the reasons my diagnosis was not in black and white was because I didn't want it to be. Denial with a capitol D.
Any movie I've ever made, the minute you walk on the set they tell you who's the person to buy it from.
Some people are in wheelchairs, but they're allowed to have a positive attitude, too.
I take one of the interferon therapies, Rebif.
I think eventually they're going to find out that MS is like 10 different things. I have a neurological disease something like MS, and it's MS, so let's take medicine for it.
This is almost exactly what happened to me: Lesions on my spine and not on my brain and a clear lumbar puncture. It's true.
I have heard all kinds of stories about telling employers about MS and I really don't know what the answer is. I am a private person, but I have found support by talking to fellow MSrs in the community.
I recently saw the movie about Ray Charles, and there's a scene where he falls down and the mother doesn't help him. She says, I don't want anyone to treat you like a cripple. I've fallen down before, and Molly will say, get up and just go.
MS doesn't define who I am.
These days 10-year-olds are very wild!
I understand how hard it is to talk to people about MS. You don't want pity or random advice.
The most important thing is when you do something proactive to help yourself. You feel better mentally and emotionally.
I've always been this insane. Isn't that interesting?
I don't even focus on what could be the worst thing. I think the worst thing for me is sometimes how other people treat me.
With this disease it is so easy to throw in the towel, and that is the worst thing we can do.
You can be diagnosed and treated early. And there is hope for the future.
It is hard to find shoes. Manolo Blanhik hasn't come out with his MS line of shoes yet! I am waiting!
Oddly enough, MS has made my life so much better than it was before. I now appreciate what I have and I am not running around like a rat in a maze.
You can't think about MS 24/7-you have to learn to put it on the back burner and get on with your life.
I plan to live to be 120!
I do Pilates a lot. I don't do a lot of cardiovascular stuff.
The ghost who revealed himself was John Belushi. He told us there was a conspiracy in LA involving then chief of police Daryl Gates and a prostitution ring.
There are some really expensive French shoes calle ARCH for formal occasions, but I am not very formal, as you can tell.
There are different types of MS.
You have to lift your head up out of the mud and just do it.
There were symptoms that I saw, and though I went to many doctors and had many tests, no one diagnosed MS.
If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.
If you sit around, you get stiff. You have to move, but it's very tricky because if you move too much you wear yourself out.
You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.
I think there are a lot of myths about MS, and it may have affected my career.
It used to be when you said you had MS, people would say, Oh, that's so devastating! It's not like that-partially because I'm out there talking about it and even laughing about it.
I go to my physical therapist to keep fighting it and one of them told me if you don't use it, you lose it, but I know we're on television so I won't say what I would often say.
Seventy-five percent of MS sufferers are women.
There's always going to be somebody worse off than me.
Look at me, I'm functioning.
I'm wondering if they haven't reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were reported, the government would have to step in and give more financial aid to us.
I have a disease, but I also have a lot of other things.
Someday they may cure MS, that idiot thing. It gets in there and they can't get it out.
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