Download or read book From Hell To Well My Journey Back From Multiple Sclerosis written by and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Journey With Multiple Sclerosis written by Marjorie A. Yobe and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 30 years with Multiple Sclerosis has been a journey I never intended to take. I have gone through denial to rejection to acceptance, finally. But the biggest obstacle I had to overcome was my own rejection of the reality of MS. I had to realize that MS did not define me or who I am. It has proven to be a long and soul-searching journey. I hope telling my very personal story may help someone else accept MS in themselves or a loved one. I am very fortunate to have a caregiver that is my husband and my best friend. i can only thank God he is in my life.
Download or read book I Awake to Another Day written by Frederick L. Keller and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-07-18 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a first-hand account of my journey with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). As I went through the stages of diagnosis to disease management, it became apparent that while there were numerous books written on the subject of MS, most focused on the medical or clinical aspects of the disease. While these sources were certainly empirically informative, they were coldly lacking in the emotional preparation and guidance that I needed. There is a profoundly personal side to any life changing diagnosis, and this is where the true struggle resided for me. I couldn't turn to anything of a nonclinical substance that would help guide me through the emotional and mental turmoil I was experiencing. There was so much I wanted to know not only from my doctors, but also from other people with MS. As I started navigating my way through things in a bit of a clumsy fashion, I was inspired to write down my thoughts and insight as that new person with MS and what they would likely want to know not only about the disease but also about themselves. This book covers the time I reflected over the year leading up to my diagnosis and the first year after receiving my diagnosis with MS. The book is divided into three distinct parts. Part One looks at a wide variety of personal topics and experiences and the impact Multiple Sclerosis has played on each. There are times of frustration, denial and sorrow. There are topics of extreme support and heroes that have stepped up in my journey. There are character traits that can be of benefit and others that can be detrimental. The intent has been to capture these aspects, feelings and thought provoking situations and how MS has touched it all. In a way, this section is a reflection of my own personal struggle through the initial blow of learning about my MS and coming to accept it as a part of who I now am. Part Two focuses on moving from a position of understanding to truly accepting what MS means in my life. Acceptance doesn't just mean sitting still, but gaining a clear mind on how you are going to choose to live with MS. Acceptance is not just formed from the perspective of being that someone with MS, but it is formed by the people around me as well. Friends, coworkers, and family all will be affected by this disease in some way, and it is vitally important that we prepare to help everyone touched by MS come to a pure sense of acceptance. Part Three is all about capitalizing on the sense of acceptance and beginning to focus on those specific efforts and the needed energy to beat it. Knowing there is no cure today does not mean that I just give up. There are so many things that can be done to maintain a "normal" life, but it takes work and a proactive frame of mind. Like many struggles we can all face in our lives, MS is really no different. There is almost always a way to make a situation like this better, but it does take time, effort, and determination. From a personal perspective, this book intends to do two things...to help others better understand the everyday experiences of a person with MS, to know what the disease takes away, and also what the disease gives. The second, to help me as a person with MS move beyond merely accepting this disease and knowing that regardless of what limitations I may end up with, that I can contribute to a better result, a brighter future for someone, be a better father and husband to my family, and look back and feel good about my life...every minute of it. Life can be so much more if I can find the way to live with MS in my life rather than find a way to fit my life into MS. My wish to the second point is that it will do the same for you.
Download or read book My Journey with Multiple Sclerosis written by Marjorie yobe and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-03-07 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 30 years with Multiple Sclerosis is not a journey I ever imagined I would take. But the struggle has taught me much about myself. It would have been so easy to adopt the attitude of, "why me?" and plunge into the depths of despair. But that would be the same as giving up on myself. And I still had much to do and much more to learn about the disease and myself. There were many challenges along the way. I had to find the strength within myself to keep active and to stay positive. I rely on friends and my caregiver, my husband, who is also my best friend and supporter. I am very blessed.
Download or read book My Journey with Multiple Sclerosis Revisited written by Marjorie Yobe and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-20 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 30 years with Multiple Sclerosis is a journey I never expected to take. Nor was it a journey that I would have wanted to take if I had had a choice. Since I did not have the choice to take this journey, I have tried to face each new point in this journey with courage and faith in myself, my family, and my friends. I have tried to not allow despair or depression dominate my thinking. I am sure that is why I am still married to the same man for close to 50 years. I am grateful to him every day of my life and hope I never allow myself to take his love for granted.
Download or read book My Journey through Life with Multiple Sclerosis written by Steve Soto and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the best-selling book “Are You Ethical?” writes an inspirational and informative book about his life long battle with Multiple Sclerosis. His story is a must read for anybody with the disease, and anybody undergoing struggles with any physical or emotional obstacle in their life. His physical and mental approach to MS, is a tool we can all emulate. A quick and illuminating read.
Download or read book In My Shoes written by Mary Monaghan Sypawka and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When people hear a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, their reactions range from denial to confusion to all-out panic. Mary Monaghan Sypawka was diagnosed with MS in 1993, when no medications were available. Due to the lack of information about fighting the disease, Sypawka went on a personal journey to find out as much as she could. In In My Shoes, she graciously and realistically shares what she has learned. There are many elements of MS that people "don't talk about." Sypawka tackles those aspects with grace and humor. She openly discusses her medicine injections, difficulties with public places, and her relationship with her husband. She lays it all out in the hopes of helping others get and stay smart about MS. Packed with information about medications, resources, doctor visits, and adapting home and work environments to fit MS needs, this simple, uplifting guide does away with clinical, complex jargon and explains MS in a way everyone can understand. Whether you have been diagnosed or you know someone who has MS, In My Shoes is a must-have aid to understanding, treating, and coping with the disease.
Download or read book My Third Life written by Roland Tassler and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-31 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will help you to discover new perspectives on the notion 'incurable'. It will show you new approaches out of an apparently helpless situation be it a disease or some other Goliath in your life. You can draw hope, encouragement and strength from this book and regain your joie de vivre! I have the autoimmune disease Multiple Sclerosis, as well as a chronic psoriasis and arthrosis. The doctors had given up on me and had sent me home to live as a 24/7 bedridden nursing case. I wanted to shorten my life, which I did not achieve, but being permanently in pain with intolerable hindrances I didn't want to live any longer. So I decided to try the last remaining option: I had to get healthy again! You can achieve this too - you can achieve anything you want. All you may need is the right guidance, in which case this book may help you. I didn't know exactly how to overcome my condition; I just knew that I had to do it myself. Unwaveringly, I searched for and experimented with alternative solutions and I found them in science, but not in medicine. After years of research, trial and error, I was able to get my diseases under control and to win back my life again. And so began my third life. This is my story, from being completely bedridden to being without a wheelchair, and even having my own car. In this book I tell you how I achieved it, and how anybody can. You are not alone with your fears and your worries. We are often able to achieve significantly more than others would have us believe. There is always a solution somewhere. This book is a filling station for hope.
Download or read book Zen and the Art of Multiple Sclerosis written by Jeff Pinney and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JEFF PINNEY LOOKS BACK AT HIS STRUGGLES WITH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS WHILE HOMESTEADING IN RURAL ONTARIO AS AN ARTIST AND WOOD CARVER. Jeff Pinney, a native of Hamilton, Ontario, had already gone through a series of dead-end jobs and luckless relationships by the age of thirty. He thought things couldn't get much worse until he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Knowing he would suffer progressive neuromuscular deterioration in the coming years, he struck out for the country to enjoy life. While homesteading in the Haliburton highlands, he enjoyed the beauty of the natural world. His life took on an increasingly spiritual dimension as he built his home, made art, and honed his skills as a wood-carver. He overcame pain and discomfort by concentrating, applying himself, and practising Zen meditation. Rather than dwell upon the ways the disease has affected him physically, Jeff explores how he dealt with it in mental and emotional terms. He also shares his candid thoughts on treatment options for MS patients. From his porch above the beaver meadow, Jeff Pinney contemplates storms of an inner and outer nature. Bound to his wheelchair, he is beset with cabin fever; but the beauty of the world, as he recounts in Zen and the Art of Multiple Sclerosis, consoles and uplifts him.
Download or read book The Making of a Multiple Sclerosis Patient written by S. Doherty and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the thump on the right-hand side of her head that woke author S. Doherty as she gasped for air. She felt as if she had been holding her breath too long. She woke her husband to tell him she had to use the toilet. He said, Well, go. She replied, But, honey, I cant. Im paralyzed. I cant move. Maybe the doctors were right. Maybe I do have the start of multiple sclerosis. And that began her journey through the labyrinth of medical tests and pointless discussions with doctors who wouldnt listen to anything she said. The final straw came when she was refused rehabilitation because the medical professionals insisted she had multiple sclerosis simply because a machine said so. In The Making of a Multiple Sclerosis Patient, Doherty shares her story of having suffered a massive stroke, yet doctors insisted she had a case of extreme multiple sclerosis even though she didnt exhibit any symptoms of the disease. This memoir shares her fifteen-year fight from a wheelchair to prove she doesnt have multiple sclerosis.
Download or read book Miracle Survivor Through Multiple Sclerosis written by Gina R. Weathersby and published by Pageturner Press and Media. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How would you feel one day when you wake up and you're feeling good, healthy, and vibrant ready to take on the world with all that is within you? Before you know it all that seems to change when your body starts to shut down and you are diagnosed with a disease you never heard of or know anything about? How would you cope with that major life change mentally and physically? Would you give up or will you fight to survive? This story is about a thirty-two years journey living from the past to present with the devastating disease of Multiple Sclerosis. In her journey, Gina has learned how to cope and live well through the process of prayer, faith, guidance, and strong support from physicians, ministers, family, and friends of all who loves her and she loves back.
Download or read book Figure It Out written by Danica King and published by Danica King. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Danica King wrote a memoir focusing on her journey with Multiple Sclerosis. She discusses the role that snapshots began to play in her Multiple Sclerosis journey. Danica's goal was to share several anecdotes about how she has managed her MS, so that other MSers don't have to learn so many things the hard way. Fully realizing everyone will have a different experience, Danica has addressed the masses with both the good and the bad things she has encountered. She has covered subjects that other MSers may not feel comfortable discussing, while not taking herself too seriously. Danica has written this narrative like she is speaking directly to her readers. Danica wrote the book that she wishes had been presented to her as a resource earlier. Danica will detail how she has flourished since her diagnosis.
Download or read book My Journey with Multiple Sclerosis M S written by Les (Lester Maxwell) Vey and published by [Goalds, Nfld.] : L.M. Vey. This book was released on 2001 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Read the Signs written by Marjolyn Wayenberg and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September 1982, Aleida said four things to me, three of which were predictions. 'You will go into healing' 'Do you know green is really red?' 'You will write a book one day' 'Your legs will be all right.' The last after trying to hide her shocked expression. In January 1983, a month before her 63rd birthday, Aleida died. Now, twenty years later, I look back and realise what this great lady saw then, how my life was to unfold. This book is all about my journey to healing. From the moment her mother-in-law predicted she would suffer problems with her legs, Marjolyn explored different methods to prepare herself for an unknown physical challenge and healing. Born in the East Indies, now known as Indonesia, Marjolyn worked as a teacher and raised four children in Australia. Despite the demands of being a working mum she also made time to learn many healing modalities. She was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in 1994. Over the next decade, it became increasingly difficult to manage. It became so bad that she wished she could die until... Marjolyn realised, as time went on, that the predictions her mother-in-law had made a decade earlier were starting to come to fruition. The last one being: 'Your legs will be all right.'
Download or read book Call It Home written by Amber Lewis and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Through gorgeous photography and heartfelt essays, the interior designer and author of Made for Living reveals her detail-oriented approach to renovating, decorating, and building a beautiful home. The details can make a room. The bullnose edge of a marble countertop. The wood grain and color of the flooring. The particular pleat of the drape. Amber Lewis, the esteemed designer known for her signature California-inspired style, obsesses over the tiniest of features to create her eclectic, laid-back look. In Call It Home, she shares her secrets to choosing and applying fabric, paint, finishes, tile, flooring, and more for a beautifully designed home, shortcutting the often-overwhelming decision-making process. Amber walks you through eight new homes she designed—including her own—and the thought processes behind every major choice. Whether you're decorating one room, renovating your entire house, or planning new construction, she shares how to approach a project from start to finish, guiding you on how to find the right team so you can get the perfect results. Then she takes you through mountain retreats and surfside homes, dreamy escapes she’s created by pulling inspiration from the surrounding property for a look that’s unique to each home. Through personal essays, you’ll learn how she set about the project, what challenges her team faced, and the materials she used to achieve the finished result. With more than 200 gorgeous images of livings rooms, kitchens, dining rooms, entryways, bedrooms, and baths, you'll have photographs of Amber’s details on hand when you're ready to create your own collection of stunning spaces—and call it home.
Download or read book I CALL BS ON MS written by and published by N Runnels. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So many of us are diagnosed with this lifelong debilitating disease that is far from easy to hear and 10X harder to live with. Its definitely life changing and it certainly can have its time when it decides that it just may want to cripple your mind and body. Thoughts of "Why me?, "What is going to happen to me?", "I just want to be normal again", I don't want to take this medicine for the rest of my life, "Will people treat me different?" are just a few things that can run through your mind. This is the short story version of my journey and where I am now 10 years later
Download or read book Multiple Sclerosis from Both Sides of the Desk written by Vincent F. Macaluso MD and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Dr. Macaluso has written the Iliad and the Odyssey of multiple sclerosis while playing the part of Odysseus. Amazing!” Carlo Tornatore, MD, Vice Chairman, Department of Neurology Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC Vincent F. Macaluso was in medical school when he got the news: he had multiple sclerosis. He soon learned that almost a half million people in the United States have multiple sclerosis—and millions more worldwide. Many have obvious symptoms, such as trouble with walking, balance, and coordination, but the most insidious aspect of the disease is how it affects the mind. Macaluso shares insights from his vantage point as a doctor and an MS patient, helping his peers understand symptoms they may not grasp and offering wisdom for those who live with the disease. Learn how to • anticipate and overcome problems concentrating; • manage swirling emotions; • understand MS from a neurological standpoint; • preserve and continue to enjoy an active sex life; and • prevent the disease from ruining family life. Laced with humor and filled with diagrams and the author’s own recollections about how he’s kept MS from controlling his life, this account is essential reading for doctors, patients, and anyone who has an MSer in his or her life.
