Tennis Great Monica Sales revealed her MySthenia Gravis Diagnosis
Monica Sales first focused on the symptoms of MySthenia Gravis – a neuromuscular autoimmune disease she recently discussed during an interview with the Associated Press – when she was swinging a racket, the way she had done several times, and after that, a career which included a place in the nine Grand Slam title and the International Tannis Hall Fam.
“I am playing with some children or family members, and I miss a ball. I was so,” Yes, I see two balls. ” These are clearly symptoms you cannot ignore, “Said said.” And, for me, this is when this journey began. And it took me a long time to absorb it, talk about it openly, because it is a difficult. This greatly affects my day to day life. “
The 51 -year -old Seles, who won his first major trophy at the age of 16 at the 1990 French Open and played his last match in 2003, said that he was revealed three years ago mysthania Gravis and was publicly speaking about it for the first time before the US Open, which starts from 24 August, which is known as MG.
Celes said that he never heard of this situation, until a doctor is being seen and sent to a neurologist, such as a dual vision and weakness in his arms after notices symptoms such as dual vision and weakness – “Just by blowing my hair … it became very difficult,” he said – and the leg.
“When I was diagnosed, I was like this, ‘what?!” So this is where – I can’t give enough emphasis – I wish I had someone like I would speak about it. “
Tennis veteran Monica Sales opens about the diagnosis of MySthenia Gravis and how it affects her day-to-day life.
Symptoms include weakness in the hands and legs, dual vision, fatigue, shortness of breath, difficulty speaking and swallowing.
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It has been three decades since Sellace returned to the competition at the 1995 US Open, reached the finals, after more than two years he was attacked with a knife in a tournament in Hamburg, Germany.
She talks about learning a “new normal” living nowadays and is characterized by her health as another in a range of life stages, which requires adapting.
“In tennis words, I think, I think, hard reset-a few times. I call my first hard reset when I came to America with a young 13-year-old (from Yugoslavia). Language did not speak. I did not speak. I left my family. It is a very difficult time. Then, it becomes a great player, it is also a re-recipient, it is also real.
“And then, in fact, myasthenia gravis is being diagnosed: one more reset. But one thing, as I tell the children that I am a mentor: ‘You’ve always met to adjust. The ball is jumping, and you have just got to adjust,” she said. “And that’s what I am doing now.”
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