Posts tagged with: mulitple sclerosis

Nighttime: An Ode

Nighttime is alive with sound here at the Hidden Falls Home for Wayward Women. Nighttime is the sound of a million unseen creatures coming in through my open windows. I... Read More

In search of grace

I remember a time when everything seemed hunky dory one minute and then life happened and all of the sudden it wasn’t anymore. I was thirty years old. I worked... Read More

How About Some MS Merit Badges

It’s odd to me how easy it is to forget what it feels like to be home again after a long hospital stay. I mean, I’ve been home now for... Read More

It’s World MS Day (again)…Let’s Have a Talk

World MS day happens every year on May 30. As I look back over the last four years that such an event was even remotely relevant to me, I’ve struggled... Read More

Lucky number 4

Here’s the thing. I know the number 4 isn’t particularly lucky and I also know that usually one lucky number is followed by a not-so-lucky number and I’m already mentally... Read More

The Fun Aunt

My dad had 4 sisters that were very much a part of my childhood. Aunt Gail had a glamorous career with the airlines. Rosemary and her husband Uncle Donald lived... Read More

The subtle art of not panicking

When I decided to go for this new approach to my treatment, I made some promises to myself. Maybe they were more like challenges that I presented to myself than... Read More

I thought you should know…I’ve been here before

It’s not technically another two-month flush, but it feels like it is. I went back into my own archives to remember what I’d written during the actual two-month flush between... Read More

Another beginning

When a new chapter begins in someone’s MS treatment, suddenly it’s not hard to come up with blog content anymore. Suddenly one’s life is full of things to think about,... Read More

Tripping on rugs, physical therapy, rollators, ridiculous dew points and epiphanies

My head has been a rocky place lately. I just completely randomly remembered a line from one of my favorite movies ever, Raising Arizona: “Edwina’s insides were a rocky place... Read More