🧡 Happy World MS Day! 🧡
World MS Day 2025: What I would tell my newly diagnosed self
Within your diagnosis lies the potential for transformation; it can either forge our strength or test our resolve, shaping us in profound ways. Mine was no different. Find out what I would tell my newly diagnosed self twenty years ago.
Is Multiple Sclerosis its own worst enemy?
MS doesn’t concern itself with how long your bucket list is. It adds unexpected chapters to your story where you didn’t want any, and it’s up to us to fill these pages advocating for our own new normals, even when we feel ill-equipped.
Happy World MS Day!
Let's do our bit to advance research until we find a cure. and be part of the solution instead of the problem!
Oh my god, I am (so not) dying!
Life with MS can be awkward. It can be puzzling. It is unquestionably easier said than done. It’s the little things that are happening inside your central nervous system that can make you stumble as if your body reinvents and transforms itself without your consent as if the ‘old’ you is suddenly not good enough anymore.
World MS Day 2025: Early Diagnosis after 200 days
"To many, life with MS can seem like a book where letters have been replaced by numbers or where the cover can be too hard or too soft for its content. Because of this, I don’t want them to see what MS can turn into. I refuse to show them that there is no cure, I refuse to give them a reason to give up on me. In my view, it is very much a case of the illness being mine, but the tragedy theirs if I let them."
World MS Day 2016
As each day passes with life with MS, it’s worth noting that quite often, there is still a large information gap to be filled on a medical, emotional, societal and political level. Like many other disease groups, the MS community wants to enhance “Life with…” once a year in a bid to give more insight in what people without MS may otherwise take for granted. In the past, I’ve written about World MS Day on my blog, as well as on the Irish MS Society’s blog and on Novartis’s MS blog. As a person living with the illness day in, day out, highlighting it has become a moral obligation.
