• Awards,  MS,  Multiple Sclerosis,  Writing

    PLEASE VOTE! MS Ireland company blog shortlisted!

    MS & Me, the group blog of MS Ireland for which I also write, has been shortlisted for the Blog Awards 2015 edition in the company Best Health and Wellbeing category! We need YOUR vote though to become a finalist. *** The PUBLIC VOTE is now open for the 2015 Blog Awards Ireland! *** Voting will be open for TWO weeks from Monday, 7th September! The PUBLIC VOTE will be worth 30% of the overall mark. The other 70% will be decided by a panel of judges. Please cast your vote below by clicking here, or on the colourful Blog Awards image below! Thank you! Ava, Diana, Trevis, Joan, Declan, Aoife, Lucina, Helen, Niamh, Emma & Willeke Please share… _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ About Willeke Neurologically challenged by MS and personally by her will to…

  • Awards,  MS,  Multiple Sclerosis

    #bloggies2015 – Longlisted! Again!

    And then there was that other happy thing that happened today: the longlist publication of the Blog Awards Ireland 2015 competition. I have YOU to thank for entering my blog, and for continuing to welcome new posts and ideas. Needless to say, I equally welcome the time you spend reading and commenting on my blog. Because this is my 3rd time being longlisted (and because I am my own harshest critic), my next goal is finding my name on the shortlist. That’s when I feel most comfortable, a little bit of a challenge, you, my laptop, that urge and the ever-present need to champion patient rights and raise public awareness on what life with an invisible illness is like. Each day, in fact, I wish I could write more. I…