All This Getting Healthy is Going to Kill Me!

I don’t want to end up using a cane or rolling around in a wheelchair.  If that’s my destiny, I will certainly accept it, but I won’t go down without a fight.  In addition to my fortitude on the issue of mobility, I’m enrolled in a new lifestyle improvement program at work called “HealthQuest.”  It’s [...]

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There’s a Reason We’re Supposed to Do It Every 28 Days

          People often ask me if I feel “better” now that I’m on Tysabri. Since I’m an official patient-advocate for Biogen Idec, the manufacturer of Tysabri, I’m completely honest and sincere with my response, but it’s normally the same response given each and every time.
          Tysabri isn’t designed to cure symptoms. It’s designed to stop [...]

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Seven Amish Buggies and One Dead Pig Reprised

We already know that no two M.S. patients are the same.  Amongst all my other issues, I happen to suffer from serious vertigo and motion sickness due to the location of lesions on my brain.  Others don’t.  So, 16 hours over three days in a moving vehicle certainly isn’t my idea of a grand plan, [...]

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