Stories

After escaping an abusive relationship with two young sons in 2001, a year later my legs went numb as a journalism student at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, six hours...

I am the mother of a daughter diagnosed with PPMS at 40. Doctors have said she was most likely misdiagnosed a long time ago. I have learned so much from...

I have had MS for almost 28 years now, and saying this condition has taught me a lot about myself and others feels like an understatement. It also feels very...

Well, my story begins, I believe, back in my teenage years when I rarely had proper behavior and decision skills. It wasn't until reaching adulthood that the brain lesions were...

Hi. My name is Traci, and I have PPMS. Life has been challenging, but my wonderful husband is always by my side. I try to stay positive and keep the...

I am not afraid. I am floating in a sea of treachery, floating in betrayal of my own flesh. I bob up and down. The waters yield no mercy. The...

I was diagnosed a few months before I turned 55. My husband also had been diagnosed with MS about 10 years earlier. Before being diagnosed, I had just taken up...

Over the decades with this MonSter I have learned how to keep it at bay for the most part. I go completely blind and lose the use of my body...

MS has given me a second chance at life in many ways. Before I ran a business, I did homeschooling, and most days were pretty nonstop. MS has a way...

Multiple sclerosis completely uprooted my life at 19 years old. I didn't know what is was or what I was supposed to do. However, over the last 10 years, I've...

You, my friend, have been so distant lately. No matter what I have tried, we cannot seem to reconnect. I know I am not the person that you used to...

It took 13 years and being destroyed by doctors who didn’t want to help me find out what was wrong with me to get diagnosed. I am multi-diagnosed with MS...

At 42 years of age I was diagnosed with MS. I had a husband, an 11-year-old son, and a 6-year-old son. My husband brought me home from the spinal test...

So to answer the question, "What have you learned about yourself while managing MS", I would have to say I learned the hardest lessons in my life because of MS...

So I have mild long-term symptoms. Cognitive stuff is the real thing I struggle with. Most of it I cannot explain to people because it is so unpredictable and I...

In 2017 I started getting these strange muscle contractions in my back on the right flank. I am a nurse so tired muscles come with the job, and I just...

When I was 20, I received the news that would change my life forever. I had been attending college in Dallas and was living away from home at the time...

I wear the mask of a grown-up when I sometimes feel quite childlike inside. Afraid of the world around me that is inhabited by grown-ups, quick thinkers, and easy decision-makers...

I recently got a call from my son asking if I could come down to Florida and help with my granddaughter for a few days due to him having to...

I had finally gotten into graduate school. I'd been a divorced, single mom for 7 years. I struggled. I worked, a lot. My ex-husband rarely saw our kids and even...