Tag: General Musings

As with my previous post, The 10 Worst Things About MS, I’m drawing on my personal experiences here. This disease attacks everybody in a different way, and therefore each MS journey is unique. I’m out of the Corporate Rat Race I had a decent career in terms of income and position, but on the whole… Continue reading The 10 Best Things About MS

(Photo credit: Wikipedia) I’m referring to my personal situation. This disease attacks everybody in a different way, and therefore each person’s experience with MS is unique. High Costs This disease is damned expensive. Last year I had $28,000 worth of unreimbursed medical expenses. This was in addition to even more medical expenses that were covered… Continue reading The 10 Worst Things About MS

(Photo credit: West Point – The U.S. Military Academy) Today I took an oath. Afterward, I tried to recall other times in my life when I might have been asked to do such a thing. Perhaps I took an oath when I was in Cub Scouts or Boy Scouts. I remember the motto was “Be… Continue reading I Do Solemnly Swear…

Image via Wikipedia As I’ve mentioned before, my mother was a wheelchair user from the time I was six years old, so I knew about handicapped parking challenges from an early age. I made it a point to keep an eye out for people who misused these spaces. As I matured into a young adult… Continue reading Handicapped Parking

Ever since I first ventured out in public with a wooden cane a few years ago, I’ve been on a mission. Until I became one, I hadn’t much noticed disabled people. Shortly after my diagnosis, however, I observed that the majority of disabled people who I encountered in public appeared to be miserable, and justifiably… Continue reading I’m on a Mission

Do you ever fantasize about the perfect day? I’m not talking about winning the lottery, lying on a tropical beach sipping Coronas, or watching Yankee Stadium fall into a big sinkhole. I’m talking about the kind of day where everything in your mundane little life simply goes right for once, and nothing goes wrong. Below… Continue reading My Perfect Day

(Photo credit: Wikipedia) 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… Continue reading Preserving My Identity

Keep in mind that it’s not only me. It’s Kim too. We’re both suffering from the effects of MS. Sure, I’m the one who has the disease, the one whose central nervous system is dissolving day by day. I’m the one who can’t work, who sits in a wheelchair, and who grows more dependent on… Continue reading When Spouses Become Caregivers

(Photo credit: epSos.de) “No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it. We must learn to see the world anew.” Albert Einstein Governments, political bureaucracies that they are, simply are incapable of providing most goods and services effectively. That’s why capitalism has been relatively successful and communism hasn’t. I cringe whenever it… Continue reading The Health Impact Fund – An Innovative Approach to Medicine or a Pipe Dream?