Posts tagged with: MS

When words fail the writer

We all get there eventually, I guess. We all get to the point where you are just so blind with anger and frustration that you don’t even have words to... Read More

Keep Passing the Open Windows

That’s the best advice I have, after beginning to come out of my very first significant relapse since my MS diagnosis nearly two years ago. Keep passing the open windows.... Read More

Technical difficulty: LOW (or is it?)

So I thought today was a simple day. I had meetings all morning that were best done on the phone from home (whew). Then I happily noticed that it is... Read More

Relapse: the Post Script

  The thing is it doesn’t really matter how fed up I am. When you go through something like this last relapse, you tell yourself that it’s a minor set... Read More

A visit with the wizard

I was nervous looking at my calendar and realizing I had an appointment with The Great Scott yesterday. I always have this irrational fear that I'm not doing my MS... Read More

Don’t call it a comeback

I got cocky again. I know. Shocker but hear me out. I had a decent day yesterday. I got through the whole 8 or so hours of my work day... Read More

Tales of an elderly shut-in, episode 1

Funny things happen when you spend a lot of time alone. Your brain goes places long ago left behind. You start thinking about every little thing. I find it odd,... Read More

Tales from the puffy village

That’s it up there. The puffy village. The place I love most in the world, where I come for comfort, where I lay my head when the world out there... Read More

Life on the inside, part deaux

So as most of you already know, I was rudely awakened at 3:45am with the arrival of my first roommate. One of only three such roommates I’ve ever had in... Read More

Another day…another missive from The Great Scott

Last time, on bethybrightanddark.com, we found our heroine in some distress. After a two month flush without meds, and the long awaited first dose of the new goo (aka Ocrevus),... Read More