Books? Great medicine!
All joking aside, I cannot even begin to count the number of books I have read since childhood or how many I handled while working in a library. Books become part of life, a friend I will remember forever, a gateway or hiding place where distraction reigns. Just holding them, turning page after page, waiting to be explored, conquered, talked about and put on a shelf waiting to be taken out again. And so the cycle begins again.
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Raw
Social media often finds me catching my breath because of its reach, its intent and its questioning behaviour towards the mindset of the people they follow. After tweeting about the content of my blog, I received a rather ignorant private message from someone asking how raw my content, or I, can get and if I wanted to elaborate. On my blog, ‘raw’ is A Powerful Letter to My MS; Death, A Fearful Thing?; Waiting and My Brother. These were pivotal words that had to be written from an emotional perspective as learning to accept a chronic illness sometimes comes with letting go of life as you once knew it. Others say that Let’s Be Frank; Ignorance; and Hope Cures Old Wounds are realistic enough to prove that life with a…
What causes MS?
Newly diagnosed people find this the most frustrating and problematic question about MS. Neurologists and other healthcare providers consider it just as difficult having to tell someone that there is no known cause or cure yet. Needless to say, the race to understand what causes MS is ongoing, and this will eventually lead to more effective treatments and hopefully, cure and prevention. In MS, the central nervous system – the brain, spinal cord and optic nerves – is affected. Nerve cells in the brain send signals throughout the body to control everything that happens, like movement, sensation, memory, cognition, and speech.
Please vote now!
With astonishment, I found out yesterday that my blog is shortlisted yet again in the Ireland Blog Awards. To reach the final, public voting will take place from Wednesday 17th until Tuesday 23rd August alongside peer voting. Therefore, I would be massively inspired and humbled if you could help me reach the final. You can do so by clicking on the pink link above or the image below and click on the ‘Vote for this Blog’ on the blue button on the right to register your vote for my little love child called Ireland, Multiple Sclerosis & Me. Since the very beginning, it has been all about quality over quantity, reality over fantasy and encouragement over impediment. There have been brutally honest and heart-wrenching articles aimed to motivate other people…
MS News: August 2016
Below are some MS-related topics that made the headlines this month. Do come back to check again, though, as the list will be updated every three days. Highlight! Guidelines for Neuropsychological Research in Multiple Sclerosis Multiple Sclerosis Journal Johns Hopkins Medicine: Multiple Sclerosis Benign MS Multiple System Atrophy Research $2 Million Grant to Study Fatigue in People with MS What health conditions do people rank as worse than death? Multiple Sclerosis in Children
Man up!
“The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure... you are above everything distressing.” (Baruch Spinoza)
