Taking Control of a Long Neglected MS Body Yes, I know that newborns don’t step anywhere and that the actual expression is ‘baby steps’. But I recently spent some time with 13 month old twins and those babies could move! I worried that even baby steps would be too much for me to start my … Read more here…
Humorous Healthy Eating for multiple sclerosis My dear friend Samantha and her daughter Lexi were in town for their annual summer visit. It is always a blast to spend time with them and to see how much Lexi has grown during the year. Lexi and I bond in many ways, but especially over our shared … Read more here…
Recently my good friend, My Odd Sock, (yes, one of my friends is a sock, an odd one at that. I am also friendly with my tv, my sofa, my $399 laptop computer that actually cost me $1200 cause I was on my legal speed RX when I bought it and my book collection-even … Read more here…
AN old lady looks at multiple sclerosis Funny how A Pirate Looks at 40 is playing in my brain as I type. Where is that old Jimmy Buffet cd anyway? There was a time when a birthday would be celebrated with margarita in hand and listening to that song as the night started to wind … Read more here…
Multiple Sclerosis Meets Blepharitis MS’er’s know the drill- the illness is real even if we don’t look sick or the symptoms are hard to describe. “I don’t know- it’s weird. I just can’t think. It’s like my brain just can’t focus on anything.” Response from many non-MS’ers, “that’s cause you’re a space shot” or “well … Read more here…
Mulitple sclerosis meets smoothies I don’t actually have moves like Jagger. It would be cool if I did, but I don’t. About the only way someone could say I moved like Jagger was if that someone happened to be drunk and listening to Brown Sugar while they watched me try to recover from a near … Read more here…
Kale is the new black I cannot put it off any longer. For almost forty years I have been shirking my vegetable consuming responsibilities and now it is time to face them. Don’t get me wrong, I would try to lean towards healthy eating often enough. If I decided to treat myself with a bit of … Read more here…
Multiple Sclerosis Meets Spring- It’s official- Spring is here. And I am probably the only person in the world who is not happy about it. The rest of you are lying to yourselves about how wonderful the arrival of Spring is. To me, what Spring really means (think of this in the singsong voice of … Read more here…
There is bird poop on the outside of my storm door. A big white clump of bird poop. It has been there for weeks, maybe months. I can’t accurately pinpoint the date because I first noticed it after having been out of town for a month. After the flight home, my friend dropped my exhausted … Read more here…
It was Elmo that finally did me in. Yes, Elmo, as in Tickle Me. But maybe that is not fair. While he was the catalyst, it was really his helpful, female puppet friend Betty Lou that was the root of my actual demise. It didn’t help that I came late to the magic and wonders … Read more here…