In 1975 when Valerie was five and her brothers nine and thirteen, my husband was diagnosed with MS. It was a diagnosis that he could not accept and from day one he stopped being a father and husband.... Read more >>

Laina Turner-Molaski is a faculty chair with Capella University, the author of both fiction and nonfiction books, and is a business consultant. Laina’s mother was diagnosed with multiple... Read more >>

I am a disabled individual diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, one of the many autoimmune diseases arising in America and the world. It is in the category of other neurological diseases: lupus, brain... Read more >>

Every now and again, I have coffee with a good friend of mine who rarely has time for herself. She is a mother of two teenage daughters and a husband with progressive Multiple Sclerosis. Many of our... Read more >>

My father used to tell me that he lived in denial when it came to my health. He would not accept the fact that I was limited because of the genetic disease I was born with. He told me, that like a... Read more >>

Recently I held a discussion and book signing at the Hopkinton public library in Hopkinton MA. During the question-and-answer segment of our discussion, one of the participants, the only person... Read more >>

One year ago, I was a twenty-seven-year-old pregnant newlywed working as a Visual Design for a SaaS company where I’d been working for close to two years. I had a three-year-old daughter who was... Read more >>

Now that I am getting thisclose to turning forty, it seems I am hearing more and more about a young parent around my age dying leaving a spouse and small children behind. It really makes me think... Read more >>

I recently spent several months in a very dark place. My life was stalled after a long struggle with Multiple Sclerosis, a chronic neurological disease. I had been hospitalized five times over a... Read more >>

Charley was homeless when we took him in. Colin, my husband, is blind and in a wheelchair with Multiple Sclerosis. He needed a special friend. Someone heard I was looking for a companion for Colin and... Read more >>