I love the holidays—beginning with October and ending through the New Year, but the holidays are a little more complicated for me due to the whole multiple sclerosis (ms) thing. The decorations, festive feelings, desserts, and family togetherness are the reasons I love the holidays. There’s nothing better than having all of those big family
It’s been a little while since I have talked about the current state of the union of myself. A lot has happened this past year as you know in terms of my health. In the late summer and early fall, I had weakness and stiffness in my left hand and fingers. It was as if
As you know multiple sclerosis (ms) causes many different symptoms and issues within the body, and ms, specifically, can cause digestive issues, including bladder dysfunction and bowel dysfunction. Particularly, almost 2/3 of those suffering from ms have at least one digestive ms symptom for certain stretches of time. This is because the digestive system, and
It’s been a little while since I have talked about the current state of the union of myself. A lot has happened in the past few months. My husband and I bought a house, my family moved and bought a new house, and my family and I are opening our third sandwich restaurant. It goes
Cognition signifies a wide range of high-level brain functions including our ability to learn and remember things, organize, plan, find solutions, focus, understand, decipher, use language, and perform calculations. It is common to have a change in cognitive function when you have multiple sclerosis (ms). Unfortunately, more than half of all people with ms will
Multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune disease wherein which the immune system attacks the nervous system. As you all know by now, that is scientific speak for the body attacks itself, which causes certain symptoms, such as tingling in your fingers, numbness in your face, or shooting pain in your shins. When our medication works, generally
It’s crazy to think that I just wrapped up my fourth year with multiple sclerosis (MS). When I look back on these past four years, I feel pretty blessed. I know having an incurable disease isn’t so blessed, but through this discovery, I have met amazing people, taken control of my health, and spent time
One of my friends on the Emerging Leaders’ Board of the Southern California Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society told me that she believes that people with Type A personalities are more likely to get multiple sclerosis (ms) than those who do not have Type A personalities. People with Type A personalities are generally
One of the more common symptoms of multiple sclerosis (ms) is fatigue, and after being diagnosed with ms, I always get asked by doctors, friends and family if I am fatigued. But, up until writing this blog post, I really didn’t know what fatigue was. I was always thinking, how do I know if I
As most of you know, my beloved neurologist who diagnosed me with relapsing-remitting ms on March 14, 2018 retired at the end of the year. He saw me one last time in December 2020 to see me off properly and set up me up with another neurologist at UCLA with whom he thought my family
