Living with MS

I believe most of us would agree that uncertainty is a familiar feeling. I'm the first one to admit that I can be somewhat irrational when faced with uncertainty. The...

While every person experiences multiple sclerosis (MS) differently, those living with the disease may share some common ground on what triggers their symptoms and how they cope. We conducted our...

As a caregiver who helps my wife navigate through a multitude of complex MS issues and decisions, it has become apparent that pinpointing the best diet is one of the...

Ever since my multiple sclerosis kicked in, I am suddenly the person who is late. I find myself running ragged trying to complete projects when I should be farther along...

Saturday afternoon, I realized something extraordinary. I woke up that morning NOT in pain. I tried to remember when the last day was that I hadn’t experienced pain in my...

When it comes to the wide variety of MS symptoms, there may be none more dreaded than that of fatigue. A common symptom that is much, much more than simply...

Acute diseases come and go. Chronic diseases are here to stay. Multiple sclerosis is a chronic disease that would be enough to handle for most people. But there are many...

MS is a lot to handle. There are a plethora of symptoms that are attributed to this chronic, and often debilitating, disease. As I stated in my article Coffee, Tea...

I live in the great state of Maine. What's so great about it? Let's start with lobsters, blueberries, and potatoes, sometimes all in one sitting. Maine is home to Stephen...

Fifteen years doesn’t sound like a long time. Twenty years, now that sounds impressive — two decades. That’s how long I’ve lived with multiple sclerosis. Although I wasn’t officially diagnosed...

I recently wrote about how I hate having to ask for help doing things that I could once do on my own. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is remarkably good at robbing...

Recently, I wrote a piece about how I worry about inconveniencing people with my illness. In it, I mention some of my experience growing up with someone else who had...

Some medical professionals sometimes use the casual term “LP” as shorthand. It's shorthand for lumbar puncture, previously referred to as a spinal tap, which “is a procedure in which a...

As someone who is pretty open about his life with multiple sclerosis, I tend to engage in discussions with anyone who desires. When folks learn that I was diagnosed at...

Most people living with multiple sclerosis have probably experienced the feeling that others think they are lazy. Or maybe they have flat out been accused! At the very least, I'm...

This isn’t intended to be political (and it baffles me that anyone can consider this a political topic), but I’m sure some people will try to take it that way...

There I was sitting knee to knee with my mother-in-law (MIL) in the doctors' office waiting area, offering her hand sanitizer after she had been rubbing her nose and scratching...

I remember the stress, frustration, and anxiety I endured when trying to grasp the concept of multiplication. I recall sitting at the kitchen table doing my homework with my mother...

Recently, someone who’d been newly diagnosed with multiple sclerosis asked me for some non-sugar coated thoughts on my life with the disease. In particular, they wanted to know what they...

People living with multiple sclerosis (MS) are faced with countless decisions about how they want to treat their condition. These decisions can have far-reaching consequences on all areas of life...