As Jennifer is back in our Springsteen room developing the PowerPoint for her online class group assignment, I’m here at the dining room table finalizing a continuing education project of my own. She’s closing in on earning her Master of Arts – or M.A. – degree in Humanities. As for me, I’d like to think…… Continue Reading
Catch the Digmanns in the news
Category Archives: Daily Life
Off to a great start
Taking a quick breath, I look at the calendar and am torn on how to react. In one sense it’s like, “Oh my God! It’s already Jan. 15?” In another sense it’s more like, “Oh my God! It’s only Jan. 15?” Seems like a lot has happened in the first two weeks of this new…… Continue Reading
See a quarter, pick it up
You all know the storied good-fortune saying about the copper one-cent coin featuring the 16th president of the United States. “See a penny, pick it up, all day long you’ll have good luck.” OK, so really. If you’re walking or rolling along the sidewalk and you see a penny sporting Abraham Lincoln’s silhouette, do you…… Continue Reading
Looking back ever so briefly
College students packing their vehicles to go home for the holidays is an all-too-familiar sight for me. I’ve worked at Central Michigan University for nearly a dozen years, and with my office positioned right across the street from several on-campus residence halls I see this each time I step out of the office around mid-December.…… Continue Reading
Not today
I think I don’t want to have MS today. I don’t want to take my injection today, because really, are you sure it is anything more than glorified water? And I’m tired of asking for help all of the time. “Will you help me in the bathroom?” or “Will you drive me to the store?”…… Continue Reading
Your support inspires our efforts
“Just finished my book by Dan Digmann and his wife, Jennifer! Finished it over my lunch hour with tears in my eyes … happy tears! Such a remarkable book by a remarkable couple! ” Reading comments like this one from Nanci in Monticello, Iowa, reassures us that our recently released book is accomplishing what we…… Continue Reading
MS and Charlie Sheen’s 'Red Dawn' lessons
I never asked for this disease. As far as I know, I didn’t do anything to bring it upon myself. So much is not known about what causes Multiple Sclerosis, I can’t even justify my diagnosis as being in the wrong place at the wrong time. It just happened. Poor, poor Dan. I sobbed so…… Continue Reading
Tick tock
Can you hear that? Maybe it is one of the clocks in our front room. Tick tock, tick tock. Nope, that’s not it. Tick tock… there it goes again. Only faster now – more like the stopwatch from the television show 60 Minutes. Less tick tock, more tick-tick-tick. I wonder to myself, “Hmm… where is that…… Continue Reading
Use nature’s fast food to keep you healthy
We are so excited to present our first-ever guest post to our blog. It is from registered dietitian Grace A. Derocha. Grace is a health and wellness social media analyst at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan, where she also is involved with wellness care management and health promotion program development and consulting. We…… Continue Reading
Heinz 57
Jennifer and I quickly are learning that the work involved with writing a book doesn’t end when you send it to the printer. It’s just beginning. Fortunately we received word from the printer early last week, and our book, Despite MS, to Spite MS, is right on schedule. We will have them available for our…… Continue Reading