For Those Who Might Have Forgotten—Forget-me-nots

An Official MS Flower As I do, I have been complaining about Spring quite a bit lately and will probably do it more in the future. But for those who actually like this season, I thought I would re-post this past blog in dedication to them.   Please allow me to send you some flowers … Read more here…

Pink and Orange Creatures

Same MS symptom, new MS monster When you were a kid, did you have a monster that lived under your bed? Being a child growing up by the seashore I wasn’t capable of worrying about just any old monster under my bed. My monster had a twist. And he didn’t live under my bed. He … Read more here…

The Noisy Bed, Rated G

A multiple sclerosis staycation Last week, EMD Serono/Pfizer invited me and nine other MS bloggers from around the country to a summit. They wanted to pick our collective MS brains about MS blogger things. It was an honor to be included among this talented and eclectic group, a bunch of folks as different as our … Read more here…

Happily Fatigued, Just This Once….

A multiple sclerosis break Holy, Holy Week Batman!!!! Happy Easter to my Christian friends and Happy Spring and everything else to everyone else! This past week has been crazy with many things, all of them mostly great.  And I can’t wait to tell you about them, later.  As with everything MS wise, any way you … Read more here…

100 MS Episodes

Multiple Sclerosis Comedy Stop the presses! Call Willard Scott! Light the candles! I’m turning 100 today! And believe me; I have the aches, the pains, the pills and the posts to prove it! Perhaps you’re confused. While MS often makes me feel 100, you are thinking to yourself, she can’t really be THAT old, can … Read more here…

Press One for Dumb

MS Stupid is as MS Stupid Does For the record, I’m not saying that people with brain fog or other cognitively limiting chronic illnesses like multiple sclerosis are dumb. That would be wrong. And it would get people really, really mad at me just as I am trying to sell them a book or two-too … Read more here…

Making it up as I Go

Multiple Sclerosis attempts to pretty up a bit I am terrified of my foundation. Ahhh, dear sympathetic readers, I must be psychic as I can hear your concern across the internet. “Yvonne must have fallen again and she is worried about her safety- that is what she means by foundation. She needs a more stable … Read more here…

If you were a Sesame Street Monster, which Monster would you be?

Multiple sclerosis brain fog muSings The latest rage on Facebook these days seems to be the fun little quizzes that tell you the inner secret of what you actually are. For example, if you were a classic rock band which classic rock band would you be? (Fleetwood Mac- I can deal with that but I … Read more here…

Get a Little Madness!

Multiple sclerosis book update Well friends, it is officially, finally, really true. I have actually written and published a book and I have a print version to prove it! In last Friday’s blog, Of Books and Babies, I made the scathing claim that writing a book is almost like having a baby. This point was … Read more here…