MS: the lies we tell ourselves
Schadenfreude must be MS's middle name because it seems to enjoy the trouble it is giving you by dragging other symptoms along in an orgy of severe fatigue, numbness, cognitive issues, neuropathic pain, and trigeminal neuralgia.
The Paradox of Our Time
We have multiplied our possessions but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We've learned how to make a living, but not a life, we've added years to life not life to years.
[UPDATED] COVID-19 resources
Resources include: travel info; recovery from COVID-19; helping children cope; información general sobre COVID-19 en español; global vaccine and virus trackers
COVID-19, I need to curse for a minute
I've had it with some people's coronavirus apathy. As a result, you'll find more cathartic curse words in this one article than there have been in the last nine years of writing IMSM. Why now? People's meaningless line of indifference towards societal norms & the greater good in some people. Case in point, watch this disorganised, disgraceful lot.
Your lockdown is over; ours has only just begun
By now, the 7.8 billion global community has met a similar match in a coronavirus that, like multiple sclerosis, is equally without a cure. It equally attacks people without warning, and without logic. Doesn't care where or how you live. It is there. Just there.
I am not my brain
"What's wrong with my brain?" doesn't automatically mean, "Is my mind, my soul therefore broken as well?"
Mental or physical, your choice
"Is life with MS that comfortable, then? God, no. Absolutely not. You just have to learn how to live with it. Somehow I found a way to tap goodness from those negative connotations because I listened to its actual narrative by refusing to make a mountain out of a molehill. So, even when facial pain is also called “the suicide disease”, even when MS fatigue can knock me senseless in less than five minutes, and even when I feel awful inside despite not looking sick, I am just cool with the whole lot because there simply is no other way."
