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Owning MS

Even though I haven't been diagnosed for a full 4 months yet it's coming up on 6 months next week since I started this journey.  The journey itself goes back years which I've talked enough about in the past but this is strictly the journey of dealing with this and looking at ways of improving.   The stress and anxiety have been like nothing I've ever experienced before but things are starting to get back to normal a little bit.  It's weird going from blogs and posts in the past few months of trying not to be down trying not to feel beaten and be positive to a post like this.  I didn't expect to talk about truly owning the shit out of MS.  I won't get cocky because I know this is an unpredictable disease and could try and attack at anytime.  I am just doing my part to try and not make that happen.  I saw the physician assistant because my MS Doc is on maternity leave currently.  We went over what's improved and just changes over the past few ...

The Fight Continues

I've had multiple people tell me they like reading my story and liked my blogs when I was first diagnosed.  It's not really a caring bridge story anymore so this will work for now.  Today was an overwhelming day with the MS Walk.  People traveled to walk around a baseball stadium a couple times for me.  I had over 20 people there walking on my team.  The best part about that is it's a small portion of the team that I have built.  There's no way I can classify whether my support team is friends, family, coworkers, etc because everyone who is in this with me is simply family.  I learned many years ago that family is not just by blood but the ones who go to battle for you everyday.  I never have to question if I'm in this alone.  I have a great wife who's basically superwoman doing so many things and now an ever growing family from all over.  It's incredible to see all the love and support and still sometimes difficult to accept.  I sp...