Work the problem: a guide for my chronic illness kin
Multiple Sclerosis features a series of problems, many of which doctors, nurses, specialists, therapists, can help us to solve. If my leg strength is weak then my physio will help me to strengthen it.
Hope, love, defiance: the watchwords of a last stand
My relationship with my hands is generally a bit uneasy. I use them to eat, to dress myself, to catheterise, to cook and clean. I’m using them right now to type! I find that I use my hands for almost everything I do short of walking, and now I use a manual wheelchair, I use them for that, too.
Every relapse a lesson
This is my 102nd blog post on RollingForInitiative and to celebrate I thought we could take a look back at the road travelled together. I was diagnosed with MS 7 years ago. It has been quite the adventure.
Wetting myself laughing
Generally my symptom profile has become fairly manageable. I catheterise to pee so I can empty fully regularly, and while I get bladder spasms I have the pelvic control of an olympic gymnast and I can fight…
