foot to the crown of his head, 8 and he got himself a piece of pot to scratch himself as he was sitting in the midst of the ashes. My first wife lived with multiple sclerosis for forty-three years. It was after about the first third of this period that the illness started having a lasting effect on her. She found it harder to walk, and she had a tough time working things out and remembering things, and she naturally didn’t have the energy for the relationship with me that she had when we were younger.