In the United States, for your 50th birthday present they give you a dose of happy drugs, roll you on your side, and slide a probe up your butt. It’s not as fun as it sounds, though, because the day before that you aren’t allowed to eat any food, and you experience the soupiest diarrhea… Continue reading A Colonoscopy for a Wheelchair User
MITCH STURGEON
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Living With MS
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Dave and Stephanie’s Wedding, Part Two of Two
During the initial planning for the wedding on Sunday night, Dave said, “I only want the ten people or so who are here tonight to be at the wedding, and I want all of you wearing nothing nicer than what you have on right now.” We mostly had on shorts and T-shirts. I asked, “Can… Continue reading Dave and Stephanie’s Wedding, Part Two of Two
Dave and Stephanie’s Wedding, Part One of Two
I thought I had the rest of our summer all planned out. Normal stuff – Red Sox baseball game, class reunion, art show in the local park. It was all detailed in my summer planning spreadsheet. Then my friend Dave flew into town and, well, things got interesting. I’ve written about Dave here before. But… Continue reading Dave and Stephanie’s Wedding, Part One of Two
FRUSTRATION!!!
I’m referring to what you feel when your routine tasks don’t go smoothly – hitting your thumb with a hammer, dropping something on the floor, or being unable to button your pants (maybe because of MS). I’m not talking about frustration with your spouse, your boss, or Obama. Everyone has a different threshold for this… Continue reading FRUSTRATION!!!
One of My Blog Posts Is Featured on MS Connection
MS Connection Blog is administered by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. They liked the guest blog post I did a few weeks ago at MyCounterpane and asked if they could re-post it at their website. MS Connection is in a whole other league from EnjoyingtheRide.com – huge readership. Of course, I agreed. Thanks again to… Continue reading One of My Blog Posts Is Featured on MS Connection
Preserving My Identity
I’ve been asked how it is that I maintain my identity – how it is I keep MS from defining who I am. To a large extent, I don’t. Earlier in my disease progression, MS was a minor player in my life. It was an afterthought, an asterisk, a postscript. It rendered my identity a… Continue reading Preserving My Identity
We Went Camping: Part Three of Three
It’s great campground entertainment to watch people crawl out of their tents or cabins in the morning. I call it the March of the Full Bladder. It’s largely a female thing, because men are more likely to cheat and use the woods in the middle of the night. A woman will emerge, groggy from a… Continue reading We Went Camping: Part Three of Three
We Went Camping: Part Two
At 4 o’clock on Friday, we piled into our minivan and drove the fifteen minutes to Hampton Beach, one of those classic, east coast towns with a split personality. Cheesy T-shirt shops and carnival style food stands from the 1950s are interspersed with modern resorts and hotels. One thing has remained constant over time, however.… Continue reading We Went Camping: Part Two
We Went Camping: Part One
Kim and I arrived at Wakeda Campground in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, around two o’clock on Thursday and started making ourselves at home in cabin number 21, one of three cabins we had reserved. About halfway through the process I offhandedly remarked that cabin 25 had a lot more shade. The weather forecast called for… Continue reading We Went Camping: Part One
I’m Going Camping
You heard me. For many years, this was our favorite summer activity, but Kim and I have not been camping since 2008. My brother and sister-in-law, Andy and Karen, and friends David and Karen will join us. We found a campground in southern New Hampshire that has very basic cabins. We reserved three in a… Continue reading I’m Going Camping