Emma Caulfield Ford Reveals MS Fight: ‘I’m Trying To Keep My S**t Together’
etcanada.comEmma Caulfield Ford isn’t letting multiple sclerosis get her down. In a new interview with Vanity Fair, the 49-year-old former “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” star reveals her MS diagnosis and opens up about dealing with the disease. READ MORE: Selma Blair Shares Her Health Journey To Mark MS Awareness Month: ‘May We All Find The Strength To Persevere’ She recalls first feeling the symptoms back in 2010, but at the time, the people she consulted assumed she had Bell’s palsy.
Finally, after having an MRI done, she got a call from her doctor informing her of the true diagnosis. “He was like: ‘You have MS.’ Just like that.
It was like an out-of-body experience,” Caulfield Ford says. I’m like, ‘No, that’s not possible.’ I’m like, ‘What are you talking about?’ He was very matter of fact about it. ‘Well, you can get a second opinion…’ It was literally a kind of nightmare….
It turns out it was something major. Then I was like, ‘I’ve got to go to work now.’ What do I do?” As the actress explains, she has family history with the disease: “My father had MS.
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