• Mental Health,  MS,  Multiple Sclerosis

    0% responsibility – 100% accountability

    Today, I joke about not being perfect or about my mind behaving like a repetitive software update that refuses to stick after a few busy days. I may add that my bones rattle and that I have a Club Med-type relationship with three different hospitals, my primary care physician and my pharmacy. Or, I forget my name, fall asleep at fancy receptions, need an hour to cut three peppers and two onions and sometimes need to nag to myself to get things done.

  • Friendship image
    Lifestyle

    How to wrap friendship

    Friends reply less when words fall between the cracks of self-censorship. When they decide to stay away, it’s up to us to never think any less of the friends who stay away. I consider it a justified reaction. I’m also on the other side of the scale where I chose to stay away from certain people because of their words.

  • MS,  Multiple Sclerosis

    I will survive!

    What do you do when you are faced with a 5-minute life-changing situation that will affect the rest of your life? Do you run, do you freak out, do you sit back and take it all in or do you simply just get on with life and let the future reveal itself? I’ve been through a few of those life-changing events. In fact, I’ve been through a few too many in too short a time. But, as the old adage goes, life goes on. You keep on going with the flow, obviously. What else can you do, otherwise? You know you are not the only one who is or will be faced with things that will impact their lives forever. Now, I am not the one to rethink and over-analyse,…