Posts tagged with: walking with MS

Happy birthday to me

The bar for having a happy birthday this year is decidedly low, what with the fact that I spent last year’s birthday doing my first stint at inpatient rehab after... Read More

Everything old is new again

More like everything old is old again, if I’m honest. I’m back at the beginning. A very fine place to start, or so said Fraulein Maria, but I’m almost certain... Read More

So now I know what floppy feels like

And it’s good to know. I mean, I was haunted by the idea that I’d find out what it felt like for my baclofen pump settings to be too high... Read More

It’s a brand new day

So, wow. Things look a little different around here, don’t they? I felt like the blog needed a little love. The thing is, when I started writing this blog and... Read More

Dreams

In my dreams I can walk. It’s funny because I’m aware that it’s a surprising fact, while I’m dreaming, meaning to say that it’s not like I’m dreaming of my... Read More

I’m haunted by steps

In my new, re-focused approach to having multiple sclerosis, I’ve been trying to keep myself motivated by focusing on small steps. I mean that quite literally. Small steps seem to... Read More

Is everything old new again?

Once the time came around back then when I was able to leave my house without falling to pieces at the first pity look from a stranger, I started to... Read More

I needed to take a minute

I’ve always been very much a fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants kind of girl. It wasn’t really a choice I made – it was just my nature. I had a boss once who said... Read More

4.6 + 11 + 1 = one hot mess

I’ve never been good at math. I was a writing major in college. Even more, I was a creative writing major (with a minor in political science but who cares... Read More

When your switch won’t flip

It’s still off. My switch. It hasn’t gone back on. It’s a real conundrum. First they tell me, rest! Your body is healing, silly person, you’ve just put your body... Read More