Thank you all SO MUCH! Yesterday my friend was told that an MRI showed lesions on her brain consistent with MS and that would explain ALL of her other symptoms. Weighing all of the known facts, that was the diagnosis. She still had more tests today to confirm it. She was prepared for the worst. I asked for your prayers and today the tests came back NOT MS - the lesions are also consistent with being a long time smoker. They also found a crack in a vertebra in her neck and a slipped disc that resulted from a fall she had in December (when she passed out and fell and hit her head on the floor which resulted in a concussion) that had resulted in the headaches. Then last week the dizziness started. All of which are SOME of her symptoms of MS. Physical therapy for the neck will help to relieve some of these and she had already decided to quit smoking yesterday. I just talked to her and she also thanks you for your prayers. She believes that she has received a miracle. She said her doctor yesterday was CERTAIN that it was MS due to all of her symptoms belonging to MS. The neurologist today said it was not and attributed the symptoms to what I described above. While the lesions will not go away, she will recover from everything else and (as long as she quits smoking) they will not get any worse. So THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU from both of us. By the way, I still see my friend Msgr. Crean's hand in all of this. He was the most humble person I have ever met in my whole life and he probably wanted to avoid the attention that sainthood would cause by stemming this in the bud. I can see him smiling down on me right now with that sly grin of his. Marge in Southern California </HTML>