Do you Facebook? Sounds like a silly question right? It seems like most everyone uses the social media site to stay in touch with friends and family. Heck, I graduated from high school 20 years ago, and even my 10th grade English teacher found me and now we are “friends.” Really, that is pretty cool.
I enjoy catching up on the... Read more
It was supposed to be the perfect trip. We were celebrating Dan’s 40th birthday with a couple of his closest friends in a fantastic city, Chicago.
And the best part: We had tickets to see Dan’s favorite, Bruce Springsteen and his legendary E Street Band at Wrigley Field.
Sounds like a perfect trip, right?
It was,... Read more
Disclosing our MS diagnosis to others is a matter both Jennifer and I seriously contemplated after being diagnosed in 1997 and 2000, respectively.
Telling family members and friends wasn’t as big of a concern as breaking the news to our employers was.
According to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society website, “When it... Read more
By definition, multiple sclerosis is an unpredictable disease of the central nervous system. But you never would have guessed that with the way we each went into recent trips to our neurologists.
We both predicted what our respective specialist would tell us. Perhaps this prognosticating is the result of Jennifer living with the disease for... Read more
Forgive me for being selfish, but after having to use a wheelchair for the last ten years, I asked during my summer independent study at Central Michigan University, “Where are women like me in film?”
After all, according to a May 2002 statistic from the Disability Statistics Center, an estimated 1.6 million Americans who live... Read more
