User talk:RuthMerkisHunt

Greetings...

My name is Ruth Merkis-Hunt and I am a counsellor in private practice in Ottawa, Ontario. Although I am a generalist, I specialize in chronic illness counselling, especially for the newly diagnosed. This is a niche I found myself invariably drawn into when I was diagnosed in 1999 with MS. My Wiki area is necessarily limited to the MS page, since I do quite a bit of research for both professional and personal reasons. I have contributed to the MS page by writing the Emotional Aspects section. Not an experienced "Wikifier" (is that a word?), I really appreciated that someone "wikified" my section so that it reads better. It is my hope to be able to continue contributing to the MS page. Multiple sclerosis is a very dynamic illness both in manifestation and in treatment discoveries. It is also one of the most likely illnesses to fall "prey" to a whole host of (non)treatments (ask me about earlier iterations of the vitamin "D" theory - someone actually told me I could "cure" my own MS by taking massive doses of this fat soluble vitamin. My own liver twinged audibly when I heard this). So, I rely on Wikipedia to provide current, actual information even within the realm of debate and discussion.

Okay, I'm done.