Ann Romney Recounts MS Symptoms That Could Limit Her Campaign Trail Time

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By Shushannah Walshe

As general election campaigning begins in earnest, Ann Romney recounted a recent health scare and detailed the limitations that her multiple sclerosis diagnosis brings to her everyday life, explaining that despite the rigors of the campaign trail there are times she needs to take a break.

“Most people, when they get to empty, they have a reserve tank – and with MS you go to empty, you are on empty, that’s it, you are done and you literally collapse. You can’t even walk anymore, you can’t even talk anymore. You are done and that’s one you don’t ever want to go,” Ann Romney told “Entertainment Tonight’s” Nancy O’Dell, describing in detail how her MS may limit the time she spends on the trail with her husband.

Romney said that before the Super Tuesday contests she “had a little bit of a scare,” explaining the symptoms in the interview.

“What happens is that I start to almost lose my words, I can’t think, I can’t get words out,” Romney said at the interview at the Palm Too steakhouse in New York City. “I start to stumble a little bit and so those things were happening and I thought, ‘Uh oh, big trouble.’”

Wearing a black top and a white beaded necklace, Romney said the long hours and rigorous campaign schedule can make her MS symptoms flare up.

“For people that have MS, there are certain rules that we’ve got to follow,” Romney said in the interview that aired Thursday evening. “One is go to bed on time, don’t have stress in your life, eat balanced meals every day and, of course, being on the campaign trail none of those things work. And it’s been a hard thing for me to balance.  If I feel myself getting a little off balanced, a little unusually fatigued I’m like, ‘See you later!’”

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