Stories

I've had MS for about 20 years. For the past 15 or more I've been in a wheelchair. I'm a widow who lives alone time pretty independent, I do everything...

I was diagnosed with MS in March 2013 at the age of 63. I'm now 70. Yes I've had my fair share of bad days but I also feel like...

I am a tour guide of the Innovation Center where I work. Every now and then I find that brain 🧠 fog will creep up unexpectedly and I am at...

"Ehh, whatever" was my somewhat cavalier reaction to the diagnosis of MS. "No big deal, life goes on, it'll be fine." Three years on, my cavalier and flippant view has...

You have to laugh. Went over to the neighbor's house the other day to deliver some mail to them and they found me lying at their front door! I had...

I've had MS for 9 years. Within these nine years, I've gone through many neurologists in search of a doctor that is educated in MS to stabilize and better my...

I just got back from doing some shopping and errand "running" and thought just maybe this might lend some encouragement to someone today. I spend a lot of time alone...

I was dxed in 1993. On April Fools' Day! Some joke. I went down at my job. I spent 3 weeks in the hospital. I was able to continue to...

So, today at work, as I was leaving at 7 am, (I do the overnight shifts sitting at a Front Desk of a condo, because that's all I can really...

Hi, I don't have much of a story to tell; was officially diagnosed in 2015, a year later from my first MS attack that took me to the ER thinking...

When I was a toddler my mom took me to the fairgrounds and not for the county fair. She wanted to see President John F Kennedy who paid a visit...

Hello everyone, I apologize for the long rant beforehand, but I needed a place to vent. For years, I've had health issues, but the specialists always came to a conclusion...

Life comes with many opportunities, it all depends on one’s choice on how to design or weave it. You either choose to fight or surrender. This is a story of...

Hello all, has anyone experienced the MS hug? For the last 2 weeks I have been having pain in both limbs, from the neck down to my feet. My stomach...

Last weekend I was hospitalized to take Cortisone through IV because my MS symptoms flared up. Usually, MS patients take cortisone to shorten the attack so they can get back...

Before I was diagnosed with MS about 10 years ago, I was seeing a neurologist for pain in my legs. He diagnosed me as having diabetic neuropathy. I went to...

Like others, I have seen and/or heard various platitudes linked to the diagnosing of multiple sclerosis (MS). Platitudes such as, "You have MS, it does not have you." Rather than...

I have chronicled my experiences as a caregiver for my fiancee Tracey here right up until her death from MS-related respiratory failure two and a half years ago, and shortly...

This last week has been pretty intense... last Friday I thought I had an eyelash in my eye and by Sunday I had lost my vision while I was working...

I have had several problems with sleep over the last 13 years since I was diagnosed with MS. It has been an ever-changing problem ranging from too much sleep to...