Stories

It happened simply, without warning, no reason. When I woke, there was white, endless, empty white. Half of my vision was missing, stolen in the night when I slept and...

Hi my name is Karie I am 42 years old and I live in New Jersey, and this is a continuing story. MS is a never ending story to me...

It all started when my mother had a heart attack. The week before she had a bleeding ulcer and was also hospitalized. My niece came down from Ohio to see...

In 2003, I experienced something that I couldn’t name for 13 years. There was exactly one good thing about my diagnosis of MS, and that was the knowledge that there...

I have a 42 yr old son diagnosed with MS in 2014. Before that he had his own place, a girlfriend and raising two girls. He began having pain above...

Hi there. My name is Fiona I am 37 yrs young with two amazing teenagers 18 and 15. I was diagnosed in 2014. I had many things go wrong leading...

I am a 76 yr old former Registered Nurse. I was 39 at the time of my first symptoms. I am PPMS stable. I haven't walked in 12 yrs. I...

Dear everyone, I will be speaking for my mom who was diagnosed with MS in 2004. She is now 70 years old. She drove up until 2012 and she did...

MS came into my life 22 years ago. It arrived with a bang, then seemingly disappeared for a long time. Before it came back with a vengeance and in the...

I was first diagnosed MS after eyesight problems started in 1983. That followed many tests at Queen Square and finally an MRI in 1987 at the same hospital in London...

There are days when I feel the weight of Multiple Sclerosis. I feel it emotionally. I feel it physically. On these days, sometimes I want to disappear. Maybe not permanently...

Quote-Sir Edmund Hillary: "It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves". It's January and we've ushered in the New Year. The scene from my window with snow tipping the...

I used to be the person that could find a rainbow in any given situation. It actually was annoying to those closest to me. However, when MS reared its ugly...

My name is Amy and I was diagnosed in 1999. I had a terrible Neuro at first. I was relieved to find out I had MS because I just knew...

This post is not about my story, nonetheless it is me sharing the story of those who have found a way to express their stories with MS. It is a...

I have just recently realized its been 20 years since MS entered my life. My kids were 3 months, 2 years and 4. I'm so thankful that I was able...

Hey my name is Chris, I live in the middle of no where Tennessee. Where our disease is virtually unknown to most people, including myself until a horrible day 6...

I remember sitting in my office at the school when my supervisor walked in and asked how I was doing. “I think I’m dying,” I said. “Oh girl, you’re doing...

I can smell it in the air… ’tis the Sugar Season. I don’t mean harvesting sugar, I mean consuming it. Sugar vehicles are omnipresent…. and by “vehicles,” I mean the...

I have been married 31 years, 25 of them living with MS. It's been a regular life, children, job changes, loved ones passing, and everyday people who drift in and...