pippa
Well-known member
Hi all, I just found out that a relative of mine has had SM for over 30 years now.
I was a child when he first got ill (in his early 40's) and never really understood the cause,it has got progressively worse over the years and he is now pretty bad with it.
I never realised it was SM and only found out tonight when his wife said to me that she'd watched a programme on TV three last night and it said my dogs can get the same thing her husband has and she asked me if I knew about it.
I was totally gobsmacked..I can't believe after all these years I never asked her about it,we are fairly close. The thing is I was a child and only 9 yrs when he got ill and we were thought not to ask questions.
I still don't understand the human type..she did say his spine was affected and his brain is not involved like in the dogs. He had some compression on the spine but couldn't be operated on because he would have been left paralysed.
Does anyone else know more about the human form of SM?
I'm still in shock!
I was a child when he first got ill (in his early 40's) and never really understood the cause,it has got progressively worse over the years and he is now pretty bad with it.
I never realised it was SM and only found out tonight when his wife said to me that she'd watched a programme on TV three last night and it said my dogs can get the same thing her husband has and she asked me if I knew about it.
I was totally gobsmacked..I can't believe after all these years I never asked her about it,we are fairly close. The thing is I was a child and only 9 yrs when he got ill and we were thought not to ask questions.
I still don't understand the human type..she did say his spine was affected and his brain is not involved like in the dogs. He had some compression on the spine but couldn't be operated on because he would have been left paralysed.
Does anyone else know more about the human form of SM?
I'm still in shock!