Or, how I’m spending MS Awareness Month See what I did there, my political friends??? Cancer and Multiple Sclerosis are both terrifying illnesses with mixed prognoses depending on many factors and each individual patient. Still, I don’t think too many people would disagree if I were to say that cancer, posing the most immediate risks … Read more here…
More about how MS and cancer hang out Warning- if you are struggling with cancer, know someone who is struggling with cancer or have lost someone to cancer, you may not find this blog amusing. Please know that I’m not minimizing cancer at all. It’s just how I deal. BUT, if you have kicked cancer’s … Read more here…
MS meets the big C With a title like that you probably thought this blog was about something juicy- perhaps even pornographic. Maybe R rated or at least PG-13. Sorry to disappoint you my friends. I’m not ready for THAT kind of writing. And while this post is about an actual boob, as in body … Read more here…
How do you know? The Date- 12/8/18 The Mission- Get my damn apartment decorated for Christmas so that I can get into the damn holiday spirit! It was later in the season than I like to be decorated. I’m not a before or day after turkey day decorator, but don’t like too to wait too … Read more here…
Less an MS blog but more of a look at what makes me so damn persnickety Please indulge me with an MS blog that’s not exactly about MS at all. My friend Kristin and I were going to dinner and a movie. We’d been eager to see Bohemian Rhapsody since the first trailer appeared for … Read more here…
How do you know? I bet you didn’t count the dots above and assume I mean that other word, F..king. But I’m talking about F…king as in freaking as in being freaky weird. But multiple sclerosis is very sucky too so F..king does apply as well. Those with chronic illness regularly talk about the things … Read more here…
Halloween Holiday Spirit Call it tradition. Call it writer’s block. Call it laziness, boredom or the result of today’s brain fog. But here is one of my most popular blogs, just in time for Halloween! Get ready for your own horror movie marathon and I would love it if you answer the question at the … Read more here…
From a blog called Stumble to Rise Since I last posted I’ve had the chance to virtually meet and chat with a very talented, fellow MS writer. Her name is Gina Whitlock Fletcher and I think she’s awesome! I plan on following her blog, Stumble to Rise, and can’t wait to read her book. Hopefully … Read more here…
What’s so smart about a smartphone, anyway? So this post is a new, old one. Here’s the complicated tech deal. I wrote and published this blog over 2 years ago. But just a few days after I did, a virus attacked my website and killed it. So I’m posting again. You’ll be happy to know … Read more here…
Without the humor, I wouldn’t make it through each day! Fortunately, my 12 year-old-son (who never knew his Mom pre-MS) has a very honest and wise perspective. Between my dad’s Alzheimer’s and my own MS, my son (who we adopted as a newborn) asked me this question a couple years ago…”So if Grandpa has Alzheimer’s … Read more here…