There you are, unsuspecting, and suddenly CMT turns your whole life upside down. I had just reached my dream job, when CMT got me ... By the end of that same year I was severely disabled and retired.
This page will give you more information about this not so rare, but hardly known, and presumably often incorrectly diagnosed and inadequately treated disease:

• Descriptions of the CMT Syndrome taken from the medical literature and support group information
• Self-Contemplations of people who live with this disease
• Handicapped Signs in various shapes and for various purposes ready for an easy print-out