I spent last Saturday evening taking care of my friend Clyde, a former neighbor, who has MS. According to statistics, white women are the most likely to get MS but no one knows why. My friend is a black man with the illness. From what I've read, that's very rare with Richard Pryor and Montel Williams being the best known cases. Clyde thinks he got it because his grandfather (or is it great-grandfather) was white.

I hope your wife's illness hasn't progressed to far. There are some promising treatments available or in development. None of them reverse the illness but they seem able to halt or slow its progress. They came too late for Clyde. He's almost a quadriplegic, now. It has been very painful to see his condition get so much worse over the past several years.

Being Clyde’s friend has help open our eyes to the physical barriers that the handicapped face every day. When we built a new home, we had wider doors put in to make it easier to get around with a wheelchair. We also had wheelchair ramps put in for both the front and rear doors so Clyde could come visit us. It’s getting very hard for him to get around now but he knows he’s always welcome in our home.