OK, so it’s been several weeks since we’ve checked in with you. Hmmm… Let’s see. Guess we’ve been busy: • Settling into a routine with our CMU graduate class, “The Legal Search for Social Justice” • Volunteering at our church – Immanuel Lutheran Church – with Jennifer serving as a Vacation Bible School teacher and…… Continue Reading
Catch the Digmanns in the news
I'll show you mine if you show me yours
Many thanks to everyone for your kind words of encouragement in the weeks leading up to and following my 8K at the Crim Festival of Races! After sharing my race experiences with you, one of the comments posted by fellow blogger Patrick Leer of Caregivingly Yours got me thinking. He asked, “OK so what was…… Continue Reading
BREAKING NEWS: Dan & Jennifer on Acorda Therapeutics "I Walk Because" Web site
After winning Acorda Therapeutics’ national contest in search of people to tell stories of their lives with MS, a series of five podcasts featuring Dan and Jennifer are live on the “I Walk Because” Web site today: iwalkbecause.org/podcasts. Dan and Jennifer will be checking in later with more details, but please watch these amazing videos…… Continue Reading
A race for my record book
I told Jennifer I’d be happy if I finished the 8K at Flint’s Crim Festival of Races in under 50 minutes. That was going to average out to a 10-minute-per-mile pace. This was slower than my normal pace, but I never had run a race of this distance before. Plus, I had heard horror stories…… Continue Reading
My record streak revisited
With all the hype surrounding Brett Favre’s triumphant re-return to the NFL today, the timing seemed right to share this column I wrote for the MS Connection newsletter in 2005. The numbers may be a little dated, but the motivating message from then still pushes me today. I hope it works for you too. I…… Continue Reading
Running with MS, pt. 4
Six days ’til the Crim 8K. Here’s the fourth installment of my essay: Tonight I’ll be on that hill `cause I can’t stop I’ll be on that hill with everything I got Lives on the line where dreams are found and lost I’ll be there on time and I’ll pay the cost From “Darkness on…… Continue Reading
Running with MS, pt. 3
The 8K at the Crim is 12 days away, and here’s the third installment of my essay: “And it’s about now that I always think to myself that there probably are healthy, able-bodied people out there who would kill themselves if they felt as good as I do …” As I…… Continue Reading
He warned me
Seven years ago, Dr. Pasupuleti, my neurologist at the time, reluctantly gave me a prescription for a wheelchair. “When I give my patients this, they almost never walk again,” he told my mom and me. “But doctor,” I said, “I plan on walking for a long time. Don’t worry. It’s just that right now, I’m…… Continue Reading
Running with MS, pt. 2
’Cause in the darkness I hear somebody call my name And when you realize how they tricked you this time And it’s all lies but I’m strung out on the wire In these streets of fire From “Streets of Fire” by Bruce Springsteen I glance down at my feet and I see them striding in…… Continue Reading
Running with MS
As I’m down to less than three weeks before my first 8K race (that’s about five miles to you and me!) at the Crim Festival of Races in Flint, I occasionally ask myself, “And you’re running an 8K why? After all, you do have MS, remember?” I then quickly remind myself, “That’s exactly why I’m doing…… Continue Reading