Alan, I'm glad that you have a diagnosis and an excellent doctor to work with, but please bear in mind that not everyone does.

Some of us are still lost in the medical system, without a diagnosis and without appropriate treatment. Because of that, it's important for those of us who are undiagnosed to remember that there is a wide variety of possibilities regarding our diagnoses and treatments and no doctor has answers for us.

Kickas exists to provide information and support for those who have AS and those who might possibly have AS. Everyone who comes here deserves to be treated with respect.

Karen

I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.

Thomas Merton



Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson