Dana

Hi, My names Dana. I have a family of 6. My husband and 4 daughters. I also have 4 wonderful dogs who has a whole huge fenced in yard to play in, a parottlett, and a cat. It gets pretty busy around here. I was diagnosed in the hospital in 2012 with M.S. But they never reffered me to a nuerologist. He didn't elieve me that I had it. So in August 2017 I changed primary doctors. Had my first appointment in August and 3 days later I had another pretty big M.S. attack. She immediatly referred me to a nuerologist out of state and was officially diagnosed with M.S. 9/5/2017. Which just also happenes to be our anniversary. So it was a pretty rough day and terrible anniversary. I was 2 1/2 hours away from home and just wanted my be, so I could hide myself from the rest of the world and cry. This turned my independant self who worked had a great career and trying to be the best mom to my girls cuz they deserve it, and then this disease. It turned our entire world inside out and upside down. You see, there is a lot of things I now cannot do for myself, as I keep getting attacked with lesions on my brain, which slowing down response times for movements and speech. It's also effecting my eyes has cause d Raynauds Pbenomenon, Fibromyalgia, of course I got Auto-Immune disorder cus everyone with this MonSter has that and a slew of otber health issues. I lost my promotion to work in 5 H&R Block stores as the head Receptionist around northwest Iowa, and got knocked so so low off totem pole that most nighys I cry myself to sleep feeling like a burden. I can no longer work. Someone else took the spot I wored so hard to get. Not only for myself but to show my girls we don't NEED a man to support us, we are atrong women, we can do anything we set our minds to. You see in 2013 I inquired to work in H&R Block as a receptionist I was 34 years old. Never graduated high school. The lady said, "If you can vet you G.E.D. by January 2014, I WILL hire you". Mind you I hadn't been in school since I was 16 years old! You do the math lol. I started classes August 2013 and was graduated by November 8th 2013. I told my girls 2 years prior that 1 day that desk will be mine everytime we passed that same H&R Block. So I took that precious Diploma into the Block November 15th, and I showed her and as promised she hired me that day told me my starting day was January 17th 2014, and I said look girls MY desk. My oldest was especially surprised. She was 13 and thought women were to stay home like I had done for all her life! I worked hard and dedicated to my clients a great service, and climbed so high I got to the very top of the receptionist ladder, never losimg my morals, never forvetting where I came from, gained so much knowledge, I loved my clients and they loved me. Ways wrote in on reviews how sweet and entertaining I was while they waited for their appointments, enjoyed my conversations, and always said I was helpful. Clients even would go
 outta their way to bring me snacks, tea, candles and other sweet gifts. And then BAM!!! Got knocked down my a barx ckre attack and couldn't go back to work. I had to resign. I was crushed. Still am. I miss my independance and the income. With both our incomes we was able to pay all our bills and still ha e leftover to do stuff with the girls. Now with just his job, we syruggle to keep up. Most days I feel like a burden. Everyone tries so hard to make me not feel like a burden. But it's rough and now they switched my daily shots that I did for 6 months straight to 3 times a week. But they have twice as much medicine and are hard coore and they make me so tired where I can barely do anything with the teeny bops. They ar 18, 16 and a junior, 15 and a sophmore, 13 and a 7th grader. One is graduate, 2 I home school, and youngest is in public school. It's mentally exhausting. You just never know how rough life can be, till you experience a life altering diagnoses. I don't wish this on my worst enemy. So now I'm not capable of doing a lot of things I pray my kids don't see that as me beimg weak....