🧡 Happy World MS Day! 🧡
World MS Day 2025: What I would tell my newly diagnosed self
Within your diagnosis lies the potential for transformation; it can either forge our strength or test our resolve, shaping us in profound ways. Mine was no different. Find out what I would tell my newly diagnosed self twenty years ago.
Is Multiple Sclerosis its own worst enemy?
MS doesn’t concern itself with how long your bucket list is. It adds unexpected chapters to your story where you didn’t want any, and it’s up to us to fill these pages advocating for our own new normals, even when we feel ill-equipped.
Revisiting ‘3443 Needles,’ Ireland Best Blog Post Award winner, 2018
In 2018, Ashville Media Group in Dublin, Ireland, organised the Ireland Blog Awards Competition. I was astonished to find out that '3443 Needles', a post I published on April 25th, 2018, won the Best Blog Post Award. The quick-witted article dealt with changing from daily disease-modifying injections to one weekly injection, and the positive impact of having to do so much less. A sincere thank you must be said once again, but I also have a request, which is to ask you to repost this in the hope of it reaching people who have since its publication been diagnosed or are awaiting diagnosis, and in the hope of it helping lift your spirit.
A harsh letter to my MS
MS, you really have no idea of the damage you created when you left me on the ruins of your castle. In fact, Sigmund Freud once said "Anatomy is destiny." It is as unpredictable as it is varied, and in need of its own psychoanalysis.
I am not my brain
"What's wrong with my brain?" doesn't automatically mean, "Is my mind, my soul therefore broken as well?"
Where is my left cheek?!
Trigeminal neuralgia feels like a vicious affair, and it is still hard to know who came first, TN or MS. Being a lover of Shakespearean drama, they would tell you they arrived around the same time.
