Moving forward

June is here, and while Jennifer is busy wrapping up her graduate class for Central Michigan University’s first eight-week summer session, I am working to get back into running form for the summer season.

I recently had my worst-ever time in a 5K race at the Alma Highland Festival of Races over the Memorial Day weekend, but it’s interesting how I feel it was my best race ever. Guess I rationalize it like this: First off, I was back out there running again; AND secondly, I set myself up to run a season-best time at the Human Race in Mount Pleasant next week!

In addition to the studying and writing, we’ve had continued opportunities to share our writing on Health Central and most recently were invited to write for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society Blog. Such an incredible honor to be featured on both major websites!

We are sharing with you links to two of the recent essays of which we are very proud. For Health Central Jennifer wrote about how she bravely dealt with a recent insensitive comment about her wheelchair, and for the NMSS Blog I wrote about how we’ve discovered through our nearly seven years of marriage, the key to effective communication includes honesty, empathy, listening and patience – HELP.

Check them out and please let us know your thoughts.

Dealing with Public Insensitivity Towards MS

Lessons relearned by accident

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