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As a person with multiple sclerosis, I read last week’s cover story [“Can Bee Stings Cure MS?” August 22] with steadily increasing dismay. Whether or not bee venom is a viable therapeutic option is not what I found so objectionable about the article. Rather, I was at a loss to understand why your reporter chose to profile someone so obviously in need of help to deal both emotionally and physically with her MS.
Articles like this one just serve to further depict those with MS as people unable to work, depressed, ashamed, and waiting with bated breath for the elusive “cure.” While the article proves there are certainly people like this, I would challenge your reporter to write an article that could perhaps be titled “Surviving and Thriving in Spite of MS.” I’m sure Joe Hartzler, prosecutor in the Oklahoma City bombing trial and a person with MS, would be one of the first to grant an interview.
