Body image and MS: how many selfies do you have?
in reality, people have far more important things to think about than how you, me and the rest of the world looks, and I even if you were on their radar, they'll have forgotten about you within the next ten minutes.
Sensory MS symptoms: The hair that isn’t there
While you're reading this, I'm writing and whacking the imaginary hair off my face again. For the n'th time today. If this goes on for another few hours, I will have to report myself for abuse of hair follicles.
Fourteen MS years and counting
Thank you for listening to whispers of fear and despair when life seemed all but lost in translation.
MS and PTSD: not all in your head
Life with MS is an is an ever-changing intimate tale of loss and redemption and of love and forgiveness within your relationship with yourself. Not one day should be the same, and not one minute can go lost to idle words or feelings.
Things that make you love and hate MS resolutions
“I must work towards a new set of ears,” I thought, blissfully unaware that getting these would be a herculean feat of biomechanical engineering. No matter how much I wished to exchange one of my senses because of bouts of noise intolerance, I had to retort to the usual, “Ah, the joys of life with MS” when laughing about another one of my MS-induced naps the following day.
My Christmas heroes
Those who willingly and therefore as blindly as I was, kept walking beside me are the heroes in this fourteen year long tale of chronic illness, daily wretched pain and forgiveness, of daily adaptation and understanding.
Time heals, perhaps even MS
As you move on in life, you will find that perhaps your diagnosis was something that needed to happen to see what is really important in life. It is not an expensive new car, clothes, jewelry. It’s health and acceptance, though flawed the best of times.
