World MS Day 2014
We all have dreams, wishes, hopes and fears. Mine? Find out more...
Medical Websites
[NEW] Reading Healthcare: A Medical Terminology Study Guide for Patients, Students and Professionals by the University of Illinois, Chicago, USA Cleveland Clinic eMedicine Health Everyday Health Johns Hopkins Medicine Mayo Clinic MedlinePlus WebMD Updated: September 8th, 2017 © Willeke Van Eeckhoutte and Ireland, Multiple Sclerosis & Me, 2011-2017. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this blog’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Willeke Van Eeckhoutte and Ireland, Multiple Sclerosis & Me with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.
Disability websites
CareGiving.com Invisible Disabilities Association National Center on Health, Physical Activity and Disability Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) Disability and the United Nations European Network on Independent Living (ENIL) Universal Declaration of Human Rights Updated: February 4th, 2018 ©Willeke Van Eeckhoutte and Ireland, Multiple Sclerosis & Me, 2011-2018. Unauthorised use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this blog’s author and/or owner are strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Willeke Van Eeckhoutte and Ireland, Multiple Sclerosis & Me with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.
MS Organisations
MS Cure Fund – Excellent source of MS patient education programs Can Do Multiple Sclerosis Accelerated Cure Project for MS Multiple Sclerosis Association of America Multiple Sclerosis Foundation Multiple Sclerosis Research Center of New York Myelin Repair Foundation Nancy Davis Foundation for Multiple Sclerosis NARCOMS Registry Bike The US For MS MS MOMS Multiple Sclerosis Research Institute MS World, Patients Helping Patients Updated: June 12th, 2018 ©Willeke Van Eeckhoutte and Ireland, Multiple Sclerosis & Me, 2011-2017. Unauthorised use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this blog’s author and/or owner are strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Willeke Van Eeckhoutte and Ireland, Multiple Sclerosis & Me with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.
Giving up is not an option
“We are all different – but we share the same human spirit. Perhaps it’s human nature that we adapt – and survive.” (Stephen Hawking) Just realised something startling. In three years of online writing, I’ve never as much written one blog post about the possibility of ending up in a wheelchair. Is it denial? Simply focusing on being positive? I don’t know what the heck it is, either way, writing about it is way, way overdue. Of course, when you hear ‘multiple sclerosis,’ you straightaway think of being confined to a wheelchair for the rest of your life. Others think of you ending up in a wheelchair for the rest of your life. You can hardly hold it against them. And, suddenly you see wheelchairs everywhere.
EMSP Spring Conference 2014, Dublin
"For those reasons, the European MS Platform will host its Spring Conference in Ireland on the 8th and the 9th of May in the Gibson Hotel, Dublin. The theme of this year’s conference is “Care where it counts - in the journey with MS.”"
Strength = choice
An invisible illness isn’t a choice. My visible hope is. ©Willeke Van Eeckhoutte and Ireland, MS and Me, 2011-2014. Unauthorised use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this blog’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Willeke Van Eeckhoutte and Ireland, MS and Me with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.
