Some pain is obvious. When someone breaks a leg, the leg is put in a cast and the person is given crutches. When you look at a person hobbling around on crutches you feel immediate compassion because you can see the pain and discomfort the person is experiencing. This is not the case with chronic … Read more
The holidays are a stressful time. Combine the stress of the holidays with a Multiple Sclerosis relapse and the result can be overwhelming on a person and/or family. During Thanksgiving in 2010, I experienced a devastating relapse with a symptom that I had never experienced before: severe mood swings and emotional outbursts. Here is an … Read more
In 1981 when I was only four years old, my Aunt Loretta passed away from complications related to her Multiple Sclerosis. My only living memories are that she was in a wheelchair then bedbound and unable to talk. She could only mumble and moan. As I lay in my hospital bed in 2005, I’m thought … Read more
One of the more vivid memories of my hospital stay for Transverse Myelitis was my mother’s conspiracy theory for why I was lying in a hospital bed non-functioning from the waist down. She believed that I developed Multiple Sclerosis from something I was exposed to in the Navy. This was one theory that I … Read more