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Karate Kid

It’s amazing how life unfolds. Look away and it can become something you never would have imagined. My nephew is 8. I have been preoccupied with him knowing I wasn’t always in a wheelchair. Stupid. I know. Anyway, what if […]

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Potty Training

I don’t write much about the mechanics of MS. I figure if you were interested in more you would leave a comment telling me so. Instead, I tell you how it affects me. In short, besides the wheelchair, I have serious bladder issues. In my household it is the boss of everything. And then it has the nerve to be contrary.

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Muse (Mardi Gras) 2011

The longer I have this (MS), the more it intrudes on me.  In the beginning, it was convenient and easy to deny its existence. Now, it’s hard to find the line where it stops and Nicole starts! It seems as […]

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Now what?

Earlier, I convinced him I was ready to do the elliptical and afterwards use my forearm crutches to make it back to the apartment. He naively agreed.

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