Multiple Sclerosis as defined on Cold Case

 

Dear Readers,

 

I have just received an interesting email from a reader of my site.  This email is about an Episode of Cold Case.   If any of you have seen this episode please let me know.  Maybe we can help make a difference.  I would like enough emails to make an impact when I write to the producers of Cold Case.  I have seen other shows that misrepresented MS.  I really angers me that they can’t do their research and get their facts straight. 

 

Bonnie

 

 

 

Email from a Reader

 

Subject:

 

Multiple Sclerosis defined on Cold Case — VERY NEGATIVE

 

I had written to you once before, regarding a 2006 episode (re-aired Sunday, 4/20) about a solving a killer’s demented puzzle — I believe it was called’ One Night Series.  It was inaccurate and quite a blow to people with Multiple Sclerosis — where in the heck did you get your definition of MS — from an OLD Medical Book???  Who is ultimately in charge of researching scripts?  There is so much going on in this country about being politically correct — well I think this goes WAY beyond that!!

 

In the episode, while the suspect is being questioned, after they find out he has Multiple Sclerosis, the interrogator says to the suspect (who they just found out has MS), “Multiple Sclerosis; your muscles atrophy, you can go blind, weak, it can take years until your mind is trapped in a near-dead body.  That’s why you bury them alive; you want to see them die slowly, the way you’re dying”

 

Anyone (especially newly diagnosed) with MS could be driven to severe depression, not to mention suicide, thinking that you had a true definition of MS

 

• ­    MS IS A CHRONIC DISEASE.  
• ­    NOT FATAL  — MOST PEOPLE WITH MS HAVE NORMAL LIFESPANS –THERE ARE NEW TREATMENTS BEING FOUND ALL OF THE TIME –
• ­    I HAVE HAD MS ABOUT 20 YEARS NOW AND I WAS EVEN DEPRESSED BY THE EPISODE.

 

People can live normal lives — sure there are downsides, as there are with many common diseases (like diabetes) — BUT HOW DARE YOU LET THAT GET AIRED — somebody certainly dropped the ball on this one (as far as reviewing the episode before it aired)  CBS is one of my favourite stations (even in this age of a plethora of channels) but this really gets to me — I’m not the only one — others with MS had called, some very upset about your definition.

 

IF ANY OF YOU COPIED ON THIS E-MAIL CAN PASS THIS ON OR POSSIBLY THINK OF SOMEWAY WE CAN EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ON THIS DISEASE, PLEASE DO SO, AND LET ME KNOW ABOUT IT!

 

Email me at:  MSBonnie@sasktel.net