My New Life-Long Goal is to be Boring“What did you do over the weekend?” someone would ask me. In the past, I remember answering that question by saying that...reactions36comments
Falling Down: My Life With MS“Wow, are you OK? That looked like a bad one!” were the first words I heard this morning. Uttered by my roommate, who...reactions5comments
How MS Patients Lost Their Patience, Got Mouthy, and the FDA ListenedIn the old days of multiple sclerosis care — say, circa 1990 — the medical research community and a passive MS patient...reactionscomments
Baby FeverLet’s talk pregnancy with MS. I have planned since my son was born to give him a baby brother or sister if...reactions2comments
Might Your MS Medications Be Causing Sleep Problems?Research shows that sleep issues are very common in people living with multiple sclerosis (MS). Sleep issues can be caused by MS...reactionscomments
Praying, Hoping, Waiting: MRI AnxietyEach time I go in for an MRI, I leave a nervous wreck awaiting the results. In cancer patients, they refer to...reactions7comments
Buried Beneath MS: I’m Still MeMultiple Sclerosis (MS) most often affects people in ways that are not easily visible to others. You can’t see our fatigue, you...reactions20comments
It's That Time of the Year: Staying Cool With MSFor many of us, that dreaded time of the year is nearly upon us. The season when temperatures begin to rise and make...reactions28comments
Why We Need to Go Outside Every Day If We Have MSI recently ran across a discussion in a forum on the subject of local workshops for forest bathing. (Yes, this is the...reactions7comments
The "Can I Just...?" PhenomenonThere are times when MS is ‘easier’ to deal with. Times when it's not so blatantly ‘there’. Those particular moments are the...reactions26comments
Gaining Weight With MSEvery so often, I’ll glance at myself in the mirror and think, “Wow, what happened?” After two decades of battling an incurable...reactions8comments
Your Shortcomings Can Be Your SuperpowersWarning: This may be a trigger post for some. Negativity. Why it is so popular, I will never understand. I used to...reactions14comments
What If It's Not All MS?I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in August of 2010 at the age of 20. I have been told by more...reactions19comments
Easy Assembly: The Life of My Hands After MSIn 2012 I had a major relapse that sent me to the hospital in excruciating pain that a shot of Dilaudid (Hydromorphone)...reactionscomments
FES As a Way to Improve Mobility of People with MSFoot drop is when disruption to the nerve pathways between the legs and brain means that the front of the foot cannot...reactions3comments
An Uncomfortable Truth: No $ In CuresIn a development more shocking than the capture of a live Bigfoot, a recent Goldman Sachs research report (click here and here)...reactions5comments
Struggling To Be PerfectAs he drove the car, I stared out the window from the passenger seat. Daydreaming. Watching my life pass me by. Reflecting...reactions43comments
The Emotional Roller Coaster of an MS Diagnosis, Pt 2In Part 1, I shared how the news of some recent friends' diagnoses (or suspected diagnoses) of MS have, in some ways...reactions2comments
Independence Valued“But I wipe my own a--! I wipe my own a--!” cried the little boy, Julian, in the movie Big Daddy as...reactionscomments
I’m Not Broken Because I Use a WheelchairI opened my email and read the headline, “Out of the Wheelchair and Onto a Bicycle: Dr. Terry Wahls' Story.” I looked...reactions56comments
