Multiple Sclerosis and Me: 5 Things I've learned about MS - Part XXII

5) A who's who list of the the MS community. Everyone who's anyone in the MS world makes the cut, including Jack Osborne, Ann Romney, and Jamie-Lynn Sigler.
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3) DON'T QUIT.
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Multiple Sclerosis and Me: 5 Things I've learned about MS - Part XXI

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4) AMPYRA is the leading multiple sclerosis walking medication. While 82% of people with MS experience some sort of walking difficulty, 40% of them don't discuss those difficulties with their doctors.
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The link between MS and depression. Also sobering is the connection between MS and suicide.

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Multiple Sclerosis and Me: 5 Things I've learned about MS - Part XX

5) 11 celebrities with Multiple Sclerosis. Ever since his diagnosis, Jack Osbourne's motto has been "Adapt and Overcome."
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Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

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Everything I Know Is Ridiculous - Part XXI

5) Dude what be hilarious.

4) Numbering among some of the finest theories of social, political and civil deception is the stand-alone conspiracy of the Reptilian Elite. In their ranks, they count Queen Elizabeth, George W. Bush, Henry Kissinger, Bill and Hillary Clinton and Bob Hope, among others. These literal lizards are laying in wait for the opportunity to overtake both mankind and the planet. 
3) Come and meet those dancing feet. On the Avenue I'm taking you to. Forty-second street.
2) How cool is it that Idris Elba will be at Coachella? 
1) Cette vidéo est en français cassé mais écoutez jusqu'au bout et ça vaudra le prix d'admission .

Multiple Sclerosis and Me: 5 Things I've learned about MS - Part XIX

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3) And now for something completely different...
  

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Multiple Sclerosis and Me: 5 Things I've learned about MS - Part XVIII

5) The one thing I miss the most about my life before MS, was that it was a luxury to not appreciate how awesome my life truly was.
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3) I have my first MS support group on Thursday and I get to find out how much better people are at MS than I am.
2) A cooling vest is a MS necessity. 

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Everything I Know Is Ridiculous - Part XX

5) How do you hold a runner on first? No, who's on first?

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3) I just use #3 to ice the reader.
2) I was correct about the The Los Angeles Rams and how they will be the 2019 Superbowl Champions.
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Multiple Sclerosis and Me

What's it like being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis? The easiest, and arguably, best way, to describe this "snowflake disease" is simply that it's suuuper weird. 

Disorientingly weird, like being drunk all the time. It comes along with all embarrassing consequences of drunkenness, like stumbling or passing gas in public places, but without having touched an iota of alcohol. 

You're fighting an opponent you're woefully outmatched against.  Because MS is always changing the playing field. Changing your sensations, Changing your recollections. Changing you. Sometimes it's gradually and minimally, others it's suddenly and entirely. But the changes occur regardless. 

You have this acute awareness of how different your actions and feelings are from the way things used to be. You feel strange, disconnected from your once familiar body, that's now a home to a host of odd symptoms. 

It's hot all the time, scalding hot, Your body moves in unfamiliar ways called spasticity, but you just know you can't do things that used to feel seamless, like dribble a basketball or move to the beat of a song. Those nerves are long gone, lost to wherever it is nerves go once MS is done with them, along with your memory. Replaced instead by tremors, incontinence, and persistent non-stop dizziness. 

I don't know how the remaining chapters of my story will end—I don't even know how to end this blog post—but nowhere in those pages will it say that I gave up the fight against multiple sclerosis. 

Multiple Sclerosis and Me: 5 Things I've learned about MS - Part XVII

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4) Truth.

3) Stem cells may be the key that unlocks the Multiple Sclerosis mystery. 

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1) I long for this day too...

Everything I Know Is Ridiculous - Part XIX

5) What does your 2019 forecast entail?
4) Spoiler Alert: The Los Angeles Rams will be the 2019 Superbowl Champions.  
3) Calvin and I share similar hobbies.

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Multiple Sclerosis and Me: 5 Things I've learned about MS - Part XVI

5) There is a tremendous amount of depression associated with multiple sclerosis. It affects not only those diagnosed but also strikes the team of caregivers surrounding them.
4) 'Or just', controls my MS life. 

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1) When you're having a tough MS day, I hope all my MS friends out there remember to keep smiling!

Multiple Sclerosis and Me: 5 Things I've learned about MS - Part XV

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MS Brain Fog

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Ann Romney

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Everything I Know Is Ridiculous - Idiom Edition

id·i·om - NOUN an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements, as kick the bucket or hang one's head, or from the general grammatical rules of a language, as the table round for the round table, and that is not a constituent of a larger expression of like characteristics.

5) Pot calling the kettle black. 
Definition: A hypocritical statement. 
Example: NASA astronauts are easy. Just because it's hypocritical doesn't mean it's not true.
4) Won't touch something with a 10-foot pole.
Definition: To find something unappealing and not want to associate with it 
Example: "I'm not touching QAnon with a 10-foot pole."
3) Traded hair for teeth
Definition: Made a bad trade e.g. traded something which grows back for something permanent. 
Example: "Broke up with my college boyfriend. I traded hair for teeth on that one."
2) Thick as thieves 
Definition: In the 18th century, 'thick' meant being closely allied with and thieves were thought of as conspiratorial individuals. 
Example: Meghan Markle and I. We're thick as thieves. Her and Kate Middleton, not as much.
1) Piece of cake

Definition: To be very easily accomplished or said ironically, about something that is extremely difficult to achieve. 
Example: "Climbing Everest? Piece of cake."

Multiple Sclerosis and Me: 5 Things I've learned about MS - Part XIV

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4) What's it like being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis? The easiest, and arguably, best way, to describe this "snowflake disease" is simply that it's suuuper weird.
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2) Having MS is like being drunk all the time but without touching an iota of alcohol. It comes along with all the embarrassing consequences of drunkenness, like stumbling, falling, and passing gas in public places.
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Southpaw

Approximately 10% of the world's population are southpaws. We don't talk about in front of strangers but my own father leans to the left. We'll never know the true percent of lefties because many were forced to change handedness during childhood by teachers, parents, or the Aryan Society for Right Handed World Domination (you didn't hear it from me).

While historically, we typically enjoy shunning and/or ridiculing our minorities, according to Chris McManus, this tiny percentage has managed to change how lefties are socially viewed due to their production of an extraordinary number of high achievers.

The magnitude of famous lefties is truly outstanding considering there's no explanation for why people are left handed.

Everything I Know Is Ridiculous - Part XVIII

5) Good Morning, Vietnam is a 1987 American comedy-drama war film staring Robin Williams as a radio DJ on Armed Forces Radio Service with a huge popularity among the troops, while infuriating his superiors.

4) Here's some well-deserved encouragement, you magnificent mother fucker. 

3) Parallel lines have so much in common. It's a shame they'll never meet.

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Everything I Know Is Ridiculous - Part XVII

5) Light exists as both a particle and a wave. This dichotomy explains how we can live in a universe with simultaneously freewill and predestination.
4) I think I had this teacher.

3) At a whopping 29 letters, Floccinaucinihilipilifica

has earned the unofficial title of the longest non-technical word in the English language. However, its meaning is quite simple: the act or habit of estimating something as worthless. (Like say this word itself?)
2) I remember this pie! It was apple.

1) What are the top traits of truly remarkable people? If you demonstrate these following characteristics, like adaptability, curiosity, and open mindedness, in addition to being a night owl, you might just be a true intellectual giant.

Multiple Sclerosis and Me: 5 Things I've learned about MS - Part XIII

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Don't forgot sweating, sleeping, and making everyone around you uncomfortable, all at once, like magic!

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1) I miss my boring life. I'd give anything to get it back.  

Multiple Sclerosis and Me: 5 Things I've learned about MS - Part XII

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4) With multiple sclerosis, often, I find myself reminiscing about simpler times and wonder if one day, these will be my simple times I'm reminiscing about like a strange loop of a larger uncomplicated era that I don't even realize or appreciate for it's simplicity.

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Everything I Know Is Ridiculous - Part XVI

5) How a light machine made peace with lions in a Kenyan village.

4) We actually don't know when Lief Erikson Day is. It could be today, where are my Viking horns?
3) If I'm late don't wait. Go on without me. I may tarry awhile.

2) I saw a goat at the movie theater last night. I said "What's a goat doing at the movies?!?!" The goat said, "Well, I liked the book."
1) Greatest. Sidewalk Sign. Ever. 

Multiple Sclerosis and Me: 5 Things I've learned about MS - Part XI

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2) I mean, I am drunk (since noon), but I ALSO have MS.

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