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Its multiple scelrosis, (spellng) and is basically when the neervous system in the brain cannot reach the body and send the right signals. I dont know that much about it but its pretty much the brain not sending the righ messages. My friends dad has it.
O right, I gathered it was something to do with the brain but wasnt quite sure whatQuote:
Originally Posted by Katy
Wow i just wastch episode 5, this show just get's better and better, roll on Thursday when we can all talk about it.
I have just got into watching this series. The first episode i watched was "the hate Mika website" episode where she tried to kill herself, it was a brilliant episode and it's a brilliant programme and i'm really enjoying it..
I feel sorry for Lorna though, things are looking up for her but it seems like that she is ill. :(
yeah i remember her from where the heart is, seen her on the waterloo road website too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Katy
You watched the right episode then Dave, it was the best ever, and they are all good.Quote:
Originally Posted by DaVeyWaVey
I could never feel sorry for Lorna, if you'd seen series 1 Dave you'd know why. You'll have to buy it when it comes out on DVD soon.
What is MS?
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a condition of the central nervous system. It is the most common disabling neurological disease among young adults and affects around 85,000 people in the UK. MS is most often diagnosed in people between the ages of 20 and 40, and women are almost twice as likely to develop it as men.
Once diagnosed, MS stays with you for life, but treatments and specialists can help you to manage many symptoms well. Although its cause is not known and a cure has yet to be identified, research continues into all aspects of the condition.
The central nervous system
To understand what happens in MS, you need to understand how the central nervous system works. Your central nervous system is made up of your brain and spinal cord. Your brain controls bodily activities, such as movement and thought, and your spinal cord is the central message pathway. Messages are sent from your brain to all parts of your body, controlling both conscious and unconscious actions.
What happens in MS?
Surrounding and protecting the nerve fibres of the central nervous system is an important substance called myelin, which helps messages travel quickly and smoothly between the brain and the rest of the body.
MS is an autoimmune condition. This means that your immune system, which normally helps to fight off infections, mistakes your body’s own tissue for a foreign body, such as infectious bacteria, and attacks it. In MS, the immune system attacks myelin. This damages the myelin and strips it off the nerve fibres, either partially or completely, leaving scars known as lesions or plaques. This myelin damage disrupts messages travelling along nerve fibres – they can slow down, become distorted, pass from one nerve fibre to another (short circuiting), or not get through at all.
As well as myelin loss, there can also sometimes be damage to the actual nerve fibres. It is this nerve damage that causes the accumulation of disability that can occur over time.
As the central nervous system links all bodily activities, many different types of symptoms can appear in MS. The specific symptoms that appear depend upon which part of your central nervous system is affected and the job of the damaged nerve.
Making it easier to understand
The simplest way to understand what happens in MS is to think of your nervous system as an electrical circuit, with your brain and spinal cord acting as the power source and the rest of your body being the lights, computers, TVs, etc. Your nerves are like the electrical cables linking all of the appliances together and the myelin is the plastic insulation surrounding these cables. If the insulation gets damaged, the electrical current to appliances can become faulty or temperamental and there may be a short circuit, preventing the appliances from working properly.
Why is it called 'Multiple Sclerosis'?
The word sclerosis comes from the Greek 'skleros' meaning hard. In MS, hard areas called plaques, lesions or scars develop around the nerves. 'Multiple' refers to the many different areas of the central nervous system that may have damaged myelin.
From the MS Society.
My (step)grandfather has MS - when I first met him he could walk, drive etc, now he is totally chair bound, has a permanent catheter and has the appearance of an 80 year old instead of the 60 years that he is. Its very debilitating. He can hardly see now, can hardly hear and has pretty much lost the total use of his body.
There are varying degrees - some MS sufferers decline in health very quickly, others a lot slower. Its a horrible, horrible thing to see anyone have to go through in life, let alone a family member.
Yeah i am thinking of buying Series 1 on dvd. The programme is made by Shed Productions who are behind the fantastic Footballers Wives and Bad Girls that's why i decided to watch the programme in the first place and i really enjoyed it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jessie WallaceYou watched the right episode then Dave, it was the best ever, and they are all good.Quote:
Originally Posted by DaVeyWaVey
I could never feel sorry for Lorna, if you'd seen series 1 Dave you'd know why. You'll have to buy it when it comes out on DVD soon.
I think the 1st series is out on 16th March or somewhere around there.
It's way better than either of those two programmes, i hated footballers Wives, but loved Bad Girls til about series 4 or 5, and it just got totally ridiculas.
I'm a BBC Drama girl, i find they make the best, like Hustle, Spooks, Waking The Dead, Hotel Babylon, New Tricks, Waterloo Road, New Street Law, the list can go on and on.
We've just had a lady come to my home with MS, she's only 65, and is unable to do anything for herself, she can't even lift her own arm any more. Some times she can say Yes and No but no very often, her husband had been looking after at home for the past 25 years, but he is now unable to cope on his own. It's such a sad illness.