On May 12, Dan and I will join our friends and family in Frankenmuth, Mich., for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society’s largest fundraiser, Walk MS. The walk is always a great event; good people, good times, an exciting atmosphere, weather that is often awful but despite that, the day is always wonderful. This is the…… Continue Reading
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Category Archives: Motivation
Trapped
Exactly one week ago today, I was enjoying the best concert I have ever been to. Funny—it was a show by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. Yes, the 80s rock singer of Born in the U.S.A. The guy that led me to tell my mom nearly 10 years ago, after meeting my now-husband…… Continue Reading
Traveling, with MS
Jennifer and I have been together for nearly a decade, but she has yet to set foot into my parents’ home. We’ve gone back to my hometown of Monticello, Iowa, to spend Easter with my family each year, but the three steep steps leading into their home make it impossible for Jennifer to get inside…… Continue Reading
"Come and see"
This Lenten season our church – Immanuel Lutheran Church – developed a devotional booklet where different members of the congregation wrote their individual reflections on John 1:43-51. Here is the devotional we wrote that appears for today, March 12. How convenient that this appears during National MS Awareness Week, March 12-18. We share Nathaniel’s uncertainty…… Continue Reading
To spend three coins
All I remember is standing on the basketball court one evening at the elementary school I attended across the street from my home. I was taking a break from shooting baskets, and I caught myself staring at our family’s one-story light green house. It was the last place I wanted to go. I don’t recall…… Continue Reading
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
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
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
'Despite MS, to Spite MS'
I keep telling Jennifer, “This really is going to happen!” We’ve written our book, “Despite MS, to Spite MS.” Our designer sent it to the printer on Tuesday, Aug. 2, and we’re hoping you are as excited to read it as we are to share it with you! “Despite MS, to Spite MS” is a…… Continue Reading
An MS caregiver's cry – Take me
I always thought I could handle whatever MS threw at me. Numb hands and feet all the time. Tingly torso and cheeks when I’m tired. Weak left leg after I run two miles. I’ve managed all of these symptoms since I was diagnosed. But after nearly nine years it has found my weak spot, and…… Continue Reading