Click to ListenActress Terri Garr is in Houston tomorrow to discuss her on-going battle with multiple sclerosis. As Paul Pendergraft reports, Garr is hoping to share her story and remind everyone that M.S. is does not mean you're working days are over.
Terri Garr first started having symptoms back in 1983. The actress, who starred in many movies including Tootsie, Young Frankenstein, Mr. Mom and Close Encounters of the Third Kind says she felt tingling and numbness that would come and go and for more than 20 years, she went undiagnosed.
Despite her diagnosis, she remains active on stage, in front of a camera or doing voice work for commercials laughing, she says in Hollywood, being over 50 is a bigger handicap than actually being handicapped. She says her most rewarding work today is the kind of work she'll be doing tomorrow morning at the new Hilton Americas Hotel helping other people with M. S.
Garr is the keynote speaker at tomorrow's event called "Living with MS." It's open to the public at the new Hilton Americas Hotel in downtown Houston from 10:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
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