Disability

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However, I did not find out about it until after she had passed away. She was dx'd in her mid-70s after an automobile accident and had dizzy spells which led to an MRI scan of her brain which showed the M.S.

She never told me about it nor did she follow-up on it. She died about 2 years after this happened.

I was in charge of her probated estate and there were outstanding bills that needed to be paid, one was to the doctor that ordered the MRI scan and that is how I found out about it.

Thanks again to The Greatest Generation or as they are now calling them quite appropriately, "The Silent Generation". Indeed eh?

To make it even more odd, it seems that her grandmother had it as well. My first cousin (still living at 85 years of age) that I found in 2008 has some rather extensive records on the old Indian grandma that died in her late-40s and has in fact written an entire book about that part of my family that I never knew a thing about being my mother was adopted out/sold in 1925 or was it really 1928? Never knew.

Grandma had severe dizzy spells as well and had taken a series of bad falls which led to her untimely demise leaving three little, ones, one of which was my grandmother that I never knew, behind in the same place where this doctor I'm supposed to go to is from strangely which is a well-known city in Louisiana! Grandma had traveled with her husband to the Medicine Mountain it states in her story. I didn't know where this is/was but it seems it is in the same place that the Medicine Wheel is located in Montana!

More about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_Wheel/Medicine_Mountain_National_Historic_Landmark

Obviously, the long journey from Texas to Montana was a long trip c. 1910 or so. Not sure how they got there but it was likely via their horse named "Old Frank" as I was told that lived to be almost 40 years old my cousin told me.

And the gene was passed down it seems to the women in my family, not that there are many of us, but seems almost all of "us" had "it".