Looking back now, Lucy Kaplan recognizes that the word-jumbling which occurred on the first day of her final Undergrad semester was a symptom of Multiple Sclerosis. But despite the six months of tests she had following this incident, her MS diagnosis took 22 years.
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Lucy then spent 8 months hiding in her house and didn't tell anyone that she had MS for a year. But as she says in this interview, as alone as you think you feel when you get an MS diagnosis, you feel so much more alone if you're doing this by yourself. So reach out to the people around you.
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Interview by Laura Kolaczkowski
Edited by Steve Woodward at The Podcasting Editor
Podcast artwork by Jackie Zimmerman at Queen of GSD
Background Music is “Old Photos” by Olexy
Support of this project is made possible through the generosity of Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson.
