The Patient Protection and Accountable Care Act, aka Obama Care, lacks accountability when it comes to drug costs. A Sacramento Bee report, identified that to keep insurance premiums low some insurers are being allowed to charge patients hefty copays for specialty drugs. This includes many MS and Cancer patients that need this medicine to help … Read more
I wanted to start by wishing Happy Mother’s Day to all the mom’s out there! I especially wanted to wish my wife a Happy Mother’s Day for bringing my two beautiful boys, Mason and Colby into this life. I also wanted to send a big Happy Mother’s Day out to Moms with MS and Caregiver … Read more
Living with a chronic illness, like Multiple Sclerosis, is tough to talk about. Often times we shut out the people we love because we don’t know how to communicate how we feel. Chronic illness impacts how we communicate with our loved ones, friends and co-workers. Instead of talking openly about how we feel, we tend … Read more
The question of why I write has many layers. My first memories of writing date back to second grade. My mom was in a fight with my dad. She swore she was going to pack up and move to Vermont. As I sat and cried in my room, I took a pencil and blue wide-lined … Read more
It is the dog days of summer. No one knows this better than the MS crowd. The hotter it gets, the harder it gets on the MS population. There have been a lot of blogs that touched upon this subject lately, so here is my two cents. It’s all scientific. A study conducted by Uhthoff … Read more
This presidential campaign is an interesting match-up of first lady candidates and their relationship to Multiple Sclerosis. In one corner you have the incumbent, Michelle Obama. At the Olympics the first lady talked about her father’s battle with MS. According to the Washington Post, Obama, who said she was “just in awe” of their company, … Read more
According to the National MS Society, analysis of the cerebrospinal fluid, which is sampled by a spinal tap, detects the levels of certain immune system proteins and the presence of oligoclonal bands. That means that if you are hospitalized with MS type symptoms, you are probably going to get a huge needle stuck in your … Read more
“You okay over there? You look like you saw a ghost or something.” Jocelyn asks. “I’m fine, just…um not feeling that great. I think I tweaked my back last night in my sleep somehow. A shower should help.” “Need me to get you anything.” “No. Just help me up.” “Ok,” she says as I’m finally … Read more
Back in 2006, I had a flare up of Optic Neuritis, costing me the vision in my right eye. I previously documented this account in an old Myspace blog. I thought this blog gained new relevancy with Jack Osbourne’s acute onset of Optic Neuritis… A year ago at this time, I was a healthy, happily … Read more
Don’t believe everything that you read. MS is not a death sentence. There was a lot of publicity this week about Jack Osbourne’s onset of Multiple Sclerosis . While I feel bad for the Osbourne family, MS is hardly the death sentence that the article implies. In fact, I would go as far as to … Read more