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.
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.
Life with MS… legs on fire!
I just didn't know, and frankly, I couldn't care less. A teardrop more or less wouldn't shake my world into either accepting or destroying neurodegeneration. Call me Waterloo so if you like. Neither the battle that took place when Napoleon Bonaparte lost face, nor the Eurovision ABBA song Waterloo could undo any hardship caused by the hands of MS. I've been told my dancing to ABBA tunes is rather epic though. My singing, not so much, so I gave up the dream of being a Eurovision song contest winner by age 6.
All about MS heat sensitivity, or Uhthoff’s Syndrome
If you're like me, or you or a loved one who has multiple sclerosis and doesn't know where to hide from warm temperatures, below posts may help you find an answer.
MS: eloquent silence of the weird and wonderful
I became to view MS and trigeminal neuralgia as an illness so nonsensical and derogatory in nature. MS is one of the most confusing and least understood illnesses in the medical encyclopedia for the mere fact that it keeps moving the goal posts in the lives of every single person with MS.
At war with COVID-19. And MS!
In some way, we all have COVID-19. It makes us battle with ourselves. It makes us seek answers where there are none. In a similar fashion, it feels as if MS reigns in entire families. You, the broken brain, spinal cord, and optic nerves. Your family, the tragedy of not being able to hand you its cure.
MS, here today, gone tomorrow?
Degeneration happens, yet it forgets to enlighten you in which physical state you will wake up in the morning, and how you will eventually go to sleep at night. If your persistent MS fatigue is anything like mine, powernaps are overrated, and you go for XXX-large naps.
