• Multiple Sclerosis

    MS: Ten Years After and….. Feeling Rather Good!

    This week will mark the tenth anniversary of the day I was told that I had MS, provisionally at least. It had probably been around for longer. I now work a three day week, can walk little more than a kilometre or two without the use of a walking stick and have many and varied cognitive problems, or challenges to put it in a more PC way. Not exactly a litany of good news, is it? Still, after such a long journey without maps and in spite of these issues, I am actually feeling pretty good! Why would that be? A Look Back To look forward sometimes needs a small…

  • Multiple Sclerosis

    Into 2023: Time for Change

    The turning of the year. A natural boundary, a time where many people will take the chance to reflect on what has been and also look forward to what is coming. Well, I do at least. Thats what this post will focus on. A big change that has been planned in 2022 and will come in to place in 2023 and how I responded to it. Which has not always been perfect or sensible. I am only human, after all. Two Years The big change started because I have been ill for two years. I know, I was diagnosed in 2013 already. But I officially reported sick in 2020, necessary…