We regularly receive emailed news releases from Multiple Sclerosis-related businesses and organizations. The Tisch MS Research Center of New York sent us one on Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018, that in 11 words truly shifted our outlook on living with MS: “RESEARCHERS SHOW STEM CELL THERAPY MAY REVERSE DISABILITY IN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS” Boom. It was as…… Continue Reading
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Tag Archives: Multiple Sclerosis
Our challenge: Take a nap or give it a rest
Have you been participating in Dan and my self-care challenges these past three weeks? Did you download the Health Storylines app or visit healthstorylines.com to set up your free account? It’s a pretty valuable and easy-to-use wellness tool. Really, we wouldn’t steer you wrong 🙂 And for this fourth week of our self-care challenge, we…… Continue Reading
A challenge for your mind
OK, so this is the third week of Jennifer and my self-care challenge asking you to take better care of yourself. In the first two weeks, we encouraged you (and ourselves!) to eat breakfast in the morning and get more movement. This past week, we got movement doing everything from stretching at home to exercising…… Continue Reading
Let Me See You Move
As Dan mentioned in his self-care essay, this is your year to be awesome and to make you your priority. Hopefully you had fun with our first challenge last week to focus on eating breakfast every morning. Now can you understand why it’s the most important meal of the day? Congrats on getting a strong…… Continue Reading
Improving the quality of the MS life
Jennifer and I have made no secrets that we are dedicated to living the best life we possibly can despite Multiple Sclerosis. Sure, we care about medical research developments and a promising future that scientists one day will discover a cure for this disease that we each have lived with the past two decades. But…… Continue Reading
This year, make you your top priority
Looking at the calendar, Jennifer and I saw that we are two weeks into the new year. Two weeks already! Usually by the second week of the year, most people have given up on the resolutions they made to improve their lives. Like the intentions to eat less junk food, watch less TV and exercise…… Continue Reading
Trippin’ on Multiple Sclerosis
As we finished our post-church coffee and muffin, Jennifer commented to me, “Why am I so darn tired this morning?” I paused, squinted my eyes as I looked through my mind for explanations, and then smiled. “You do realize that a week ago at this time,” I asked, “we were at the airport in Nashville…… Continue Reading
Happy Anniversary, Birthday and Christmas
Dan and I celebrated our 12th anniversary, both of our birthdays and Christmas this past weekend. Our plan was to travel 90 minutes to Grand Rapids to see the musical Wicked in the afternoon and an O.A.R. concert in the evening. To say we were excited would be an understatement. The music for both events…… Continue Reading
#ChatMS = #YouHaveToParticipate
Do you have someone you can talk to about your life with Multiple Sclerosis? Sure, Jennifer and I have each other, but our MS world just got a whole lot larger after just one hour last Monday evening. We guest hosted a Facebook and Twitter conversation through #ChatMS, a weekly chat dedicated to discussing different…… Continue Reading
Can’t believe it has been a year
Dan and I will celebrate 12 years of wedded bliss on September 10. We are very happy and live a pretty full and complete life. With us both having Multiple Sclerosis, it made sense to us to never have children; besides as soon as we moved into our house, we were blessed with Cooper. Sure,…… Continue Reading