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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
MS Madness! When I was a kid if you had asked me what kinds of things I loved I would have said books and babies; after family, God, dogs and Elvis of course. I liked babies so much that I even tried to kidnap one once. Before you panic, I was only 8 and a … Read more here…
Multiple sclerosis tries to clean up It’s not a secret that I have slight germ-a-phobe tendencies. I’m not quite ready to lock myself in a plastic bubble (scrubbing bubbles to be precise) just yet, but it is troublesome. On a yearly family trip with my mom and sister, I have to run and hide when … Read more here…
Of rodents and multiple sclerosis “Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage..” Bullet with Butterfly Wings, Smashing Pumpkins According to the Chinese zodiac (and no, I didn’t just have Chinese food, that is one take out I can avoid as not being worth the calories, probably because of … Read more here…