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Janet Meydam has been an occupational therapist for 20 years and is licensed in the state of Wisconsin. She has worked in a variety of settings, including inpatient and outpatient hospital, freestanding outpatient clinics, nursing homes, home health care agencies, and sheltered workshops. She was employed at these settings through contract agencies and worked at many of them simultaneously. In 2002, wanting a change of pace, she took a public school position and now works with school age children in a public school setting. Janet has been married to her wonderful husband Tim for 1 year and they have three teenage children between them. She enjoys antiques and runs a small internet antiques and collectibles business, Maple Grove Collectibles. She and Tim have also started a new business based on Tim's love of model trains, Easy Model Trains.com. Janet and Tim enjoy travel, wine tasting and wine making, cooking, and searching for antiques at local rumage sales. They spend a great deal of time managing their three children and attempting to train Tim's dog, a german wire haired pointer named Rylee.

Health & Fitness > Disease (Other) Explaining multiple sclerosis

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What Is Multiple Sclerosis: Multiple Sclerosis, or MS, is an autoimmune disorder. Autoimmune disorders are diseases in which the body's immune system misinterprets a normal structure or function of a person's body as an alien object and begins to attack it, causing the disease. Other autoimmune disorders include rheumatoid arthritis and lupus. In multiple sclerosis, the immune system attacks the fatty tissue that surrounds the neurons in the brain and spinal cord. This tissue, called myelin, protects each neuron and allows each neuron to conduct its signals correctly through the brain or s...

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