Is It Time for Me to Adopt a Pet?Several neighbors in my retirement community have small dogs and a few cats. The dog owners have to walk them several times...reactions24comments
The Upside of Being AbandonedOf course, there is no upside to being kicked to the curb in the beginning. It smarts like the dickens. It’s outrageous...reactions5comments
Just Trying to Get Through the DayWhen someone asks how you are, what do you say? Fine, thanks.Still sucking air.I’m swingin’! Does that question drive you batty? Do...reactions12comments
You've Got a FriendYou just call out my name And you know wherever I am I'll come running to see you again Winter, spring, summer...reactions2comments
I Relate More to My Elderly Neighbors Than to People My Own AgeWhenever people asked me what that first MS attack felt like, I was frustrated and at a loss. I threw out words...reactions23comments
It's Normal to Grieve For What You've LostAs traumatic as a multiple sclerosis diagnosis was for me, the trauma soon faded and the losses that followed lingered much longer in my...reactions5comments
What Multiple Sclerosis Looks LikeTry to imagine what disease looks like. Any disease. Diabetes, for example. When you hear the word, what do you envision? An...reactions3comments
Money isn't Everything — But It Could Buy a Lot of Happiness“All I ask is a chance to prove money can’t make me happy.” –Henny Youngman (1906-1998) So you didn’t win the genetic...reactions1comment
The Straight Poop on Bowel DysfunctionIf you suffer from constipation, sudden urges to move your bowel that make you desperately hobble to the toilet, fecal leakage between...reactions9comments
Something Worse than MSMultiple sclerosis is hard to live with, on that we can agree. But I’ve heard some pretty strange things from people over...reactions2comments
Eternal Poverty: The Real-life Consequences of Living on a Fixed IncomePoverty, some people argue, is relative. It very well might be. I can introduce you to several of my poor relatives, not...reactions7comments
Diagnosis: Denial, Its Consequences and SolutionsThink back to the beginning of this whole ordeal, back to that whack-a-do diagnostic disease pitch your docs threw out there that...reactionscomments
Physical Therapy and the Promise of Improved Mobility, Strength, and BalanceEvery so often, the nihilist in me comes to the surface. Not in a late 19 century Russian let’s-kill-the-Tsar-and-exile-all-the-aristocrats kind of way--and...reactions6comments
