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…
Some MS science fiction Just this morning someone in one of my online MS Facebook groups asked how do you know when something new in your body is MS or some other medical issue? This is an excellent question without a definitive answer. I have struggled with this many, many times as each new weird … Read more here…
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…
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…
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…
The spin in multiple sclerosis When I was a teenager I worked at a card store. I still remember the best card I ever stocked. It was in the “Thinking of You” section and the front cover had a drawing of a person who was shaded in blue, sitting on a chair. The front … Read more here…
Music for multiple sclerosis to move to So this spring ushered in a blizzard and some company. With gale force winds and several inches of snow predicted for 3/26, my mom came to stay. For the record, these previous two statements are not complaints; neither about the weather or about my mom visiting. All is … 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…
More multiple sclerosis NO balance issues and a contest winner My last blog discussed how I had failed the heel to toe test at my neurologist’s office and how that caused drunken memories and great concern. It concerned many of my readers too, which made me analyze this over and over. Then I decided to … Read more here…