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Spring Snowstorm of 1984! I don't know about the rest of you but I'm glad to see the winter of 2007-2008 go away. The months of November, December and half of January were tolerable but the last two and a half months have gotten long. Temperatures in North Dakota , USA... ( added 1 year 215 days ago.)

My Current Life with a Major Disease! I have the wonderful disease of multiple sclerosis! I'm kidding! Multiple sclerosis (MS) isn't too wonderful and it can be life changing! It's changed my life in some good ways and some bad. MS is a weird disease. What makes me mad is that I look... ( added 1 year 217 days ago.)

If I Only Had a Brain! The longer I have my multiple sclerosis the more things I discover about the disease and myself! I've written articles about the physical side of MS but there's really a mental side to the disease, too! I always thought it was purely physical... ( added 1 year 227 days ago.)

Can You Say Disinhibition? "Disinhibition" is a process which results in an individual having a reduced capacity to edit or manage their immediate impulsive response to a situation. For me my disinhibition results in swearing and talking rapidly about anything! I call it... ( added 1 year 235 days ago.)

My Life With Anxiety! This is a very personal story of mine. I've suffered for lack of a better word with some form of anxiety for 20+ years. In fact, now that I know what anxiety is I can date my first anxiety/panic attack way back to the summer of 1985. Nowadays... ( added 1 year 235 days ago.)

Multiple Sclerosis and Emotions! This just happened to me on 3/1/08. I was reading a book to my six year son about Lou Gehrig. Lou died of ALS which is commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease around the age of 37. As I read the pages I was overcome by emotions about Lou having ALS... ( added 1 year 241 days ago.)

Rough Start To 2008! I have to apologize for not many articles in the past month or so. I've had a rough first part of 2008. On January 29th my computer suddenly and without warning froze up and I lost all my pics, documents and addresses for everything. Being kind of... ( added 1 year 267 days ago.)

The Longest Night! I remember back in May of 1993. I'd gotten married a month earlier and things were looking up! A friend of ours was having a party. At the time I was 35 years old and I was starting to realize that getting drunk wasn't as much fun as in the old... ( added 1 year 338 days ago.)

Problem Solving For Multiple Sclerosis If you read my three part article series titled "The Scariest Day Of My Life" then you already know that I've got multiple sclerosis. MS is a disease of the central nervous system which is your brain and spinal cord. A person's body with MS is... ( added 1 year 349 days ago.)

Me and My MS Fatigue! Fatigue is typically the result of working, mental stress, jet lag or active recreation. It can also be from boredom, disease or a lack of sleep. It may also have chemical causes such as poisoning or mineral or vitamin deficiencies. The sense of... ( added 1 year 362 days ago.)

The Scariest Day Of My Life - Part 3 This is the final article of my three part series on my diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. If you missed the first two articles I suggest going back to read them otherwise part three won't make sense to you. After all my tests were completed I... ( added 2 years 19 days ago.)

The Scariest Day Of My Life - part 2 This is the second installment of my three part series about the diagnosis of my multiple sclerosis. In January of 1991 I went to get my eyes checked at a Benson Optical. The optician gave me a different prescription. I thought this might... ( added 2 years 28 days ago.)

How Do You Determine Quality Of Life? The title of my article today is really a good question. Have you figured out yours? I have done a lot of soul searching in the past 5 years. Some people might say the quality of my life is not so good anymore. I beg to differ. I have friends... ( added 2 years 36 days ago.)

Why Am I So Tired? The second noticeable symptom with my multiple sclerosis that I experienced in 1991 was fatigue or tiredness. But again if I search my memory banks I can go back to at least 1980 with the fatigue and tiredness problem. But when you're 20 years old... ( added 2 years 42 days ago.)

Multiple Sclerosis and My MRI I guess last week was a health week for me. I went to the dentist on Wednesday the 12th. My teeth have become a wreck because I drink too much Vanilla Coke and I eat too many sweets. I must have at least 10 cavities. Then after that I drove to... ( added 2 years 52 days ago.)

Multiple Sclerosis and My Insurance Career Im not an insurance man. Although I have auto, health and renters insurance I have no desire to be an insurance man. I remember 27 years ago when I applied to be an insurance man right out of college. I was 22 and rather shy and I turned down a... ( added 2 years 64 days ago.)

Multiple Sclerosis - She Ain't No Picnic! When I was a kid if there was ever a problem at home my father would always say this about the situation, "she ain't no picnic"! I'm sure it was to make us laugh and diffuse the situation and he always said it at just the right time. He probably... ( added 2 years 66 days ago.)

Multiple Sclerosis and Heat Sensitivity This is the first in a series of articles that I’m writing about my multiple sclerosis symptoms. I’m not a doctor and I try to talk in layman’s terms. This article is about heat sensitivity which is a common symptom for people with multiple... ( added 2 years 81 days ago.)

Multiple Sclerosis and My First Symptoms I would like to say first that I'm not a doctor so I don't know all the technical words for what I describe in the following paragraphs. But I speak in layman's terms that I think most people understand. I have secondary progressive... ( added 2 years 101 days ago.)