Discovering Your Absolute Value: Thriving Amidst the Positives and Negatives of Chronic Illness
Do you ever feel like your worth is tied to what you do —whether it's your job, productivity, or achievements? If you're like me, that...
Podcast :Verses and Visions with Cassidy Beck
Cassidy Beck 0:00 There we go. Welcome to the podcast versus envision Creative Conversations. I'm your host, Cassidy Beck, in this...
Robin Montesano
Robin Montesano-MS strong since 1992 I have had multiple sclerosis for quite a while. When I was diagnosed in 1992 they started me on...
Karen Marshall
I had two young kids and was working as a Registered Nurse in acute care when I was diagnosed with MS. It completely devastated me. It...
Dalyce Morris
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...
Keyonna Renae
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...
Jayme Lockwood
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...
Samantha Land Dare
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...
Bill Powell
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...
Brittany Tackett
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....
Sadie Curtis
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...
Michelle Tolson
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...
Brandie Iler
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...
@JoeyBouchard
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...
@lifewithmoyna
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...