Actress Emma Caulfield Ford, best known for playing Anya Jenkins on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Sarah Proctor/Dottie Jones on WandaVision, has revealed she has been diagnosed with Ms, or multiple sclerosis.
In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, Emma Caulfield Ford opened up about Ms, defined as a “potentially disabling disease of the brain and spinal cord” that does tend to affect females more than males. Ford, who is 49, recalled first noticing symptoms such as lack of most feeling on her skin more than a decade earlier. Hearing it could be Bell’s palsy, she sought medical attention. Upon receiving her Ms diagnosis, she said it was “an out-of-body experience.”
Still, Ford has kept quite optimistic considering the compilcations. “It’s a weird thing to say when you’re given a diagnosis like that, but truthfully, my attitude is not crumbling under the fear of “what if” or “what can,...
In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, Emma Caulfield Ford opened up about Ms, defined as a “potentially disabling disease of the brain and spinal cord” that does tend to affect females more than males. Ford, who is 49, recalled first noticing symptoms such as lack of most feeling on her skin more than a decade earlier. Hearing it could be Bell’s palsy, she sought medical attention. Upon receiving her Ms diagnosis, she said it was “an out-of-body experience.”
Still, Ford has kept quite optimistic considering the compilcations. “It’s a weird thing to say when you’re given a diagnosis like that, but truthfully, my attitude is not crumbling under the fear of “what if” or “what can,...
- 10/5/2022
- by Mathew Plale
- JoBlo.com
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