“But I think it’s difficult to be a mom and dad for everybody.” “People don’t believe that we can be a mom and dad with chronic disease and disability,” she says. “But when we decided to have a kid, we were very passionate that we were capable of educating our child.” “When I was diagnosed, we believed-and science believed-that people with MS couldn’t have children, it was not appropriate to have children with MS,” says Bruna. Six months after their first email exchange, they finally met in person. Soon, they were emailing every single day, sharing little details of their lives. Jaime was working on his master’s degree at the time and wanted to ask her questions about being in academia with a chronic disease. After he was diagnosed, Jaime began researching MS and came across posts Bruna had written about doing her doctoral studies while living with MS. Jaime and Bruna actually met through Bruna’s blog. “That was one of the reasons I started my blog,” says Bruna, “because I didn’t want anyone else to go through this situation.” He’d been having trouble walking and running and experiencing weakness for a few years, so he was glad to finally have an explanation for what was happening with his body.įor both Bruna and Jaime, their diagnosis was their first contact with MS. Jaime found out he had MS in 2012 at age 28, but instead of a shock, he says his diagnosis came as a relief.
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