Stories

Since I am little, every year around easter my whole family (which comes up to about 30 people some years) meets up on a campsite near Venice, Italy. Every year...

Yesterday was a step for me. I had my first ‘therapy’ session. I recently spoke with my neurologist (well, the PA) about some of the feelings I had been having...

I am struggling through muscles power problem. They are being getting weak day by day but now I come to a point where it can not happen any more. The...

Seven years ago, my body began falling apart. My eyes felt like there was a film across them, and I truly felt that I was going blind. My body began...

This is my story. So who am I? Sitting in front of you all? Many of you have seen me charging about the passageways on my motorised wheelchair or sitting...

I use to be a kind caring loving person give you my colors in live by but now I find I'm on edge and tire very easily I'm not enjoying...

In 2004, at age 21 I lost the vision in my left eye making it impossible to do my job (test fire guns)!! I went to an eye doctor who...

My story dates back to about 2 years ago, when I was in great shape, living the good life and completely oblivious to what MS was other than something I...

It is both a tough and a touchy subject. What I’m about to express is part humor, part lamentation, but most of all honest. The topic is one that is...

Why does it seem that young children and older adults have things figured out? Really?! They take their time when doing things (mostly out of necessity but also to really...

I have MS since last 4 years. Just had a relapse, people around me never knew what I was going through before me relapse they saw in hospital and now...

The Today show ran a piece this week for MS Awareness Week to highlight that there are now 12 disease modifying therapies (20 years ago there were 0, nada) and...

You know, the ‘kid medication’ for those with ADHD. You see, what any college kid in the middle of finals week knows is that while Ritalin helps those who are...

I am a 59 year old woman with Secondary Progressive M.S.. I was diagnosed only three years ago with RRMS but was re-diagnosed (is that even a word?) with Secondary...

I came in to this MS world kicking and screaming a mere 6 months ago and have already had a relapse. I am saddened at the instant change in my...

It is MS Awareness week and so I thought I’d do my part and write about how MS affects me during my daily life. No two people are ever the...

It was bound to happen, and it was bound to be me that it happened to. It was a cold February morning, one of those cold windy mornings when it...

So in 4 weeks time we have wonderful friends arriving from overseas and they are literally traveling to the other side of the world to visit us. We've known them...

Eight- the number of cities, hotel rooms with broken doors and ambulance trips alone...diagnosis "we think it is your heart but all tests come back negative." Then the defining episode...

I don't like being too busy. This is something I never thought about. Busy or not, I would get through the day just fine, even when I had been diagnosed...