Another prominent face with MS, Neil Cavuto

[sllowe]

Neil Cavuto - news anchor...

http://journals.lww.com/neurologynow/Fulltext/2012/08040/Business_as__Mostly__Usual__Multiple_sclerosis.8.aspx?WT.mc_id=EMxj07x20120805NNxL04

While I did not know he had MS, I was happy to read toward the end of the article this:  

Although initially discouraged, Cavuto decided to face his MS diagnosis head on by learning all he could about the disease, taking medication, modifying his lifestyle, and continuing to work. Multiple sclerosis is incurable, but doctors told Cavuto his symptoms could be improved with medication and by maintaining a healthy diet and regular exercise program.

“At first, I felt somewhat self-absorbed and wondered, ‘Why me?’” Cavuto says. “Then I made the decision not to let MS define me.”

The disease forced him to put his life into perspective. “Having MS has made me look at life and death more sharply,” says Cavuto, who is a married father of three. “I don't take my success for granted, and I value the time I spend with my wife and children.”

After his diagnosis, people began offering support and sharing their own stories of survival in the face of serious illness with him. Cavuto remembers feeling both inspired and humbled by these stories, many of which he included in his bestselling book, More Than Money: True Stories of People Who Learned Life's Ultimate Lesson (HarperCollins, 2004).

Cavuto considers himself lucky to have been diagnosed with MS in the late 1990s, after researchers had introduced treatments that could slow the progression of the disease and reduce flare-ups.
“If I had been diagnosed 10 years earlier, I think my story would be drastically different,” Cavuto says.


So much in those few paragraphs that we discuss at length here sometimes...i.e, modifying lifestyle, treatment opportunity, life lessons, education, advocacy...

~Shell

[doublevision1]

Another Fox employee, Canadian meteorologist Janice Dean, came out with her MS dx a few years ago.  She said Cavuto was a great support to her when she was dx'ed.  She's gotten married, had children, and continues in her career since her dx and seems to be doing very well.

[candy158]

Good article, and it is sad that we have yet another person joining us in our MS, but he sure does have a point, as we all seem to have here, get on with it, and deal with it when necessary, and fight like h*ll against it, but, take heed in listening to your own body, and try and take notes and pay attention to changes, and symptons, and know when to stop, and when to GO ....

Here's hoping we all will hit the green light, and GO !!

Thanks for posting Shell,
xox

[marlo34]

I love how you worded that!

[sllowe]

B is good, lol

Yea - he's had it for 15 yrs - good veteran advice

[kwarendorf]

We seem to have reached the same conclusions, Mr. Cavuto and I. We have MS, now what? A) Sit in the corner and whimper or B) Do everything we can to keep the MS wolves at bay? I went with B :-)

Kyle

[sllowe]

Also - as the article continues, it covers his decision to tell his bosses, etc. Like many Neurology Now articles, this is very good.