MSAA Reblog: Celebrating My Birthday Despite MS

Celebrating My Birthday Despite multiple sclerosis

When you are living with multiple sclerosis sometimes you don’t feel like celebrating. Especially, if you live near Phoenix and high temperature on the day of your celebration was 111 degrees. I was feeling fatigued, overheated and wanted to stay in bed all day. I was considering cancelling the dinner, but there was one party … Read more

Beat the Heat with Kool Max Cooling Vest

Beat the Heat with Kool Max Cooling Vest

  From May until September, temperatures in Chandler, Arizona are constantly in the triple digits. For the first four summers since I moved to Chandler, the heat constantly affected my MS. I found that during the high heat that I was more fatigued, more irritable and had less energy than I did during the cooler … Read more