Stories

I decided to enter a weight loss contest three years ago. Gradually I increased my beginning fitness program from 5 minutes on a leg press, 5 minutes in a swimming...

I waited for the leaden thump to land in my belly. I hadn’t expected a Jaws-style dolly-zoom or sombre pizzicato strings to pluck out a funeral march. But, as the...

This is my big BUT GOD moment. I started experiencing my first symptoms of MS in 2017. The right side of my face went numb, with angioedema. I was going...

Well, it was Friday, and I had to go to an office meeting in the hospital where I worked. It was July, so it was very hot outside and hot...

I forget about the pains and aches that accompany my RRMS despite the monthly injections I receive and quarterly blood draws. I forget that I don’t have the energy and...

It’s been two years since I started this new chapter in my life titled: “You have Multiple Sclerosis.” Initially, I noticed my left hand went simultaneously numb and tingly. Then...

My name is Deborah, and I have had MS for the past 20 years. It began after completing a sponsored walk when I felt weak down one side. On a...

Way back in the early summer of 1995 (actually the month of May), my wife and I went to Florida and stayed at a condominium for our 3rd anniversary, which...

I hate hope and inspiration. It just doesn't work for me. It's not some "fear to hope" or "fear to be inspired" because I'll fail or be disappointed or any...

I write this as Kathy's husband of 41 years. I enjoy reading how people cope with this disease - I still find them uplifting. But I have to point out...

Hello 👋☕️ I never imagined that I'd become a patient. I am a psychiatric nursing assistant, trained primarily in brain injury rehab. So when my fingers went numb, my rational...

Hi, my name is Jane. I'm a 52-year-old nurse by profession and mother of 3 grown-up children, one biological and two adopted. My journey began in 2011. I woke up...

Just another day, again, I had a conversation with MS. I have a weekly session with MS, like a therapist visit. I asked him "What did you love in me...

I have been recently diagnosed with MS. It all started in April when I started to suffer from double vision. It took me 2 weeks until I went to the...

I am newly diagnosed and allowed myself about a week to feel bad for me. Now, I push myself to do things as best as I can. I used to...

When you are consumed with this so-called life, knee-deep in raising 3 kids, a marriage, a full-time job and a household. And then MS hits you like an 18-wheeler just...

There are so many MS struggles that could be unwrapped in a story, but right now in my journey, I am struggling with what I've forgotten. It has become a...

After 35 years of marriage my husband divorced me, he said I wasn’t fun anymore. I was being treated for fibromyalgia at the time and the doctor I had just...

Diagnosed in 2011, the last 12 years have been *knock on wood* fairly uneventful. Besides fatigue and occasional aches and pains, I have been "lucky" that my MS journey hasn't...

What I learned since being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis is that as many times, as God tried to get me to slow down, the only way he was able to...