Where purpose, perseverance, and grace meet—one post at a time.

I used to be healthy, like, seven, years ago. And then I had my second baby. I came out of the C section, and the feeling in my legs...

I spent years, almost a decade, knowing it was probably M.S. After watching my mom and aunt both be diagnosed with M.S. over 15 years, I...

My MS story is simple. I came from being a child whose mom had M.S. To being her caregiver. To having M.S. myself. I was eight years old...

It was July 4, 2002. I woke up and my foot was asleep. By the next day, it had moved into both my legs. By the third day the numbness was...

When I was diagnosed 32 years ago, the first thing my neurologist said was I might want to get a desk job. But UPS was the first job I...

I was only 12 when the doctor told me I was “faking it." But I knew my arm numbness was real. And it was moving up towards my shoulders....

My story isn’t that dramatic or anything. It started with knee pain, which the doctor passed off as a pinched nerve. It took eighteen...

I was a professional dancer my whole life. A former Radio City Rockette. A dance instructor. You know, MS symptoms mimic a lot of other...

In the back of my mind, I would say, “It’s not fair.” I was only 23 years old and had a two-year-old when I was diagnosed. I had watched...

It's been a crazy twenty-two years. I went to sleep one night-- you know as a semi-normal person-- and then woke up that next morning...

It was New Years Eve 2019. I had been in the hospital all day, with people coughing all around me, and a body that was numb from the...

I remember being in the hospital and waiting for the results. We pretty much knew it was multiple sclerosis and, I was sobbing. My family...

"I think MS has made me brave. It has made me strong. I still think back to when I grew up in the countryside. You know I lived a regular...

When I look back, life felt normal. I did the typical mom things. I ran kids to sports. I worked at the school. In my spare time, I wrote...

It is a relapse? Is it a pseudo flair? Who the heck knows. So frustrating I can't get help faster and have to suffer through the pain of...