Multiple Sclerosis goes whale watching Forgive me please if this blog post gets a little off the multiple sclerosis topic. There will be a connection, I promise. Aren’t we with MS always connected to MS in some way? The harder we try to disconnect to it the more connected we seem to be. The above … Read more here…
Are you an MS zombie too? Earlier this week, someone posted the above picture in one of my Facebook MS groups. (Sorry, fellow MS’er and poster. I didn’t want to steal your pic but I really liked it and was desperate for a blog post idea.) I laughed out loud at the picture and immediately … Read more here…
A repeat of the wacky multiple sclerosis road trip The last couple of weeks in July have been very busy and my already foggy brain has been too foggy to come up with something new. The foggy weather hasn’t helped either. Please accept this repeat blog post today instead of some creatively brilliant musing that … Read more here…
Multiple Sclerosis Advice You may think today’s blog is another one that has me whining about my obnoxious bladder. Well, it’s not. Although, to paraphrase my sister Laurie, “my bladder issues do still piss me off!” When you tell people you have a chronic illness you find yourself on the receiving end of a ton … Read more here…
What’s so bad about a little fatigue? “I am sick and tired of being sick and tired….” I didn’t write the quote above. Nor did I credit it to anyone as I am not sure who to credit it to. I have heard it so much and seen it so often I think it … Read more here…
Multiple Sclerosis investigated by a six year old Lucy is my cousin and she is six. Technically, she is my great, great cousin. And, as she is a great, great kid, that would be great except that two greats simply means that I am aging, greatly. (MS friends-if you were able to follow that … Read more here…
What’s good for you is impossible to get to I first noticed this particular multiple sclerosis peculiarity about two months after my diagnosis. I was at an MS support group meeting in a hospital. This support group was sponsored by a local drug company and since drug companies have tons of money, they fed … Read more here…
Multiple sclerosis procrastinating, I mean, meditating When I was in college, some three trillion, billion years ago, most of my dorm mates had to read a book called Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I wasn’t in the class that assigned the book and so I didn’t have to. Back then I cared very … Read more here…
From young to old, courtesy of multiple sclerosis Last week I minimally and tentatively gave multiple sclerosis credit for something good-my being mistaken for someone not old enough to legally purchase alcohol. Well I was wrong! MS reared its ugly, aging head once more just so I didn’t go too crazy with sentimental gratitude. For … Read more here…
An MS Positive? Possibly. Myself, and fellow MS’ers like me, have a tendency to blame multiple sclerosis for everything bad. Not just everything medically bad in our bodies, but everything bad. War, death, violence, hatred, Justin Bieber,….…you name it. If it’s bad, it is MS’s fault. And why shouldn’t it be? MS is a … Read more here…