O Sole Mio Sundays – Lauren’s Story

Most Sundays, I devote my blog to the stories of others who let their Moonlight times inspire them to let the positive blossom from the negative.  Today I’m featuring the story of Lauren Parrott.
Lauren is 24 years old and has had M.S. for eight years.  Despite suffering from rather serious tremors and a variety [...]

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Is Skee-Ball a Sport?

George Lopez would say, “Member? You member! You member Skee-Ball, don’t you?”  It’s the old midway game, invented in 1909, and still filling amusement arcades to this day.  If Skee-Ball is a sport, I’ve finally found a sport at which I’m good!  I whipped the hubby’s nether region on Memorial Day in a 30 minute, [...]

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The First Stop

I’ve never ridden on a train, unless the subway counts, or perhaps the train at the Zoo.  I’m assuming that trains have “stops” just like subways.  For weeks, I’ve been pulling on an imaginary cord just above my head (“ding, ding”), trying to get my personal train to make its all important first stop – [...]

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Living with Anger at M.S.

By Contributing Writer
Needles ’n Pens
 
I’m a public school teacher. Some of my co-workers have had cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, other serious diseases, various surgeries … and I have MS. It seems after decades of paying health insurance premiums, I’ve become part of the financial liability for our health insurance group. It’s not a good feeling. [...]

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Seeing the Sun through the Clouds

Earlier last week I wrote a post about visiting Lilydale, a spiritualist community in New York, in an effort to “Let a few things go.”  Of course, this comment has caused some folks to email and ask, “Just what is it you need to let go of, Kim?” 
Friends, if I knew that answer, I [...]

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A Tap on the Shoulder

Sometimes all it takes is a little reminder.  A gentle tap on the shoulder that says, “And this, too, shall pass.”  The hubby sent me that reminder during my Solumedrol Sojourn.  Of course, it was the hubby who coined the phrase “IAR” here in the Sunlight.  Of course, it continues to be the hubby who [...]

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Honoring a Woman I’ve Never Met

The Internet and especially the Blogosphere is an amazing place; a place where complete strangers, folks who have never met face-to-face feel kinship and friendship.  Today I’m honoring a woman I’ve never met.  A woman who likely has never visited the Sunshine, but her son has on many occassions.  Avid and frequent readers recognize his [...]

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The Aging of the Not So Innocents

Last week I spoke of the difficulty in watching my innocent baby, my Lab Oboe, age into a place of illness and pain.  In speaking of the Innocents, I also referenced watching the aging of the hubby in a different realm, a different light.  I return to the blogosphere today a changed person, after spending [...]

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O Sole Mio Sundays — Thinking of Teddy Today

I was saddened on Tuesday, to learn of Ted Kennedy’s diagnosis of a malignant glioma in the left parietal lobe of his brain.  I was saddened for a variety of reasons.  First, I think Ted Kennedy rocks.  He’s a great politician, a great leader, doesn’t take you-know-what from anybody, watched two of his kids battle [...]

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I Met My First M.S. Terrorist

“Aren’t you that lady with that disease? M.S.?”  A woman approached me at the grocery store during my last visit to ask me that question. It’s my own fault.  I’ve talked about my disease very publicly, on television, in the newspaper, on both of my blogs.  It’s common for strangers to approach me to encourage [...]

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