Stories

A person has to accept what they cannot change. In order to move on, to learn how to breathe again, to climb above that obstacle that never ceases to expand...

It’s been two years and I’m still wondering where it all went wrong. I remember having bad headaches and thought “Oh, it must be the weather!” I remember losing focus...

When diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. The life you once had, the dreams and ambitions suddenly without warning, are stripped away. It starts the beginning of your new life and the...

When I was 23 and working as a gunsmith for Keltec, I lost eyesight in my left eye! With that being said, you can just imagine how hard it was...

I've always been the rescuer and an adrenaline junkie. It was either on the ambulance or the fire dept., our business, or with one of my kids. I live in...

As an MSer, one of the biggest obstacles I have faced since my diagnosis in 2020 was losing my natural ability to walk. It was such a sudden, drastic change...

My MS journey began in 2012 with a misdiagnosis from a neurologist who said my lesions were nothing to worry about, so I didn't. Fast forward 5 years to losing...

I look at when I was first diagnosed with M.S., and to now, I have accomplished and am very proud that I'm still alive and still walking up right. Even...

In July 1985 I checked my blind spot while driving and was hit with a lightning strike from my neck to my right hand. I determined it must be a...

I was in healthcare, and although I'd heard of MS, I was not at all familiar with it. For me I had fainted at first, but never did learn the...

Living with Multiple Sclerosis is every day, month and year. When I was told that I had M.S. in 2007, I thought the world was going to crumble down on...

About 6 months after having my one and only child, I started to notice that I really was not myself. I forgot people’s names, mixed up words in sentences while...

I would have prioritized my self-advocacy over self-doubt. I would have trusted my body to tell me what it needed rather than forcing a uniform lifestyle on it based on...

I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease in 1974. I got the worst kind right off the bat. Fistula, the whole shebang. I was 17. Fast forward to 2009 and several...

I was diagnosed in 2018 after a vague tingling in my right foot was getting a bit scary (and annoying). I was 57 at the time, a bit on the...

My husband, in his mid-thirties, started getting very fatigued after mowing the lawn. We had moved from Iowa to Florida for his new job as assistant director of a library...

On my 50th birthday, which was 2 years ago almost to the day. I felt like I was on top of the world! I spent it backcountry camping at Lake...

So many indignities, so little time. MS is comical at the best of times. My gait resembles a drunken Roomba, my speech is stunted and choppy, and everything in my...

It was back February 23, 2010. I was admitted to labor and delivery, and February 24th at 12:30 am my son came into this world via emergency C-section! I wasn't...

Here is the thing. I tell my loved ones the total truth about how I am feeling about my physical and or mental state when it comes to myself and...