Warning: This post contains pictures that may frighten young children. Please “exercise” caution. People workout for their pecs, abs, bi’s, tri’s, traps, delts, lats, quads, hammy’s & glutes—but they rarely exercise the muscles….of their face! Did you know you have 43 muscles in your face just waiting to be used? Instead, we let gravity take …
It’s hard to avoid….the floor that is. With multiple sclerosis, your balance gets as twisted up as underwear after a full day at the amusement park. So you may take a fall or two….or three hundred. We do our best to avoid them. But sometimes, shit happens. While falling in private is aggravating, falling in …
When it comes to vitamins, no one can agree. On ANYTHING. Should you take them? Which ones? How many? What dose? They can’t even agree on how much money Americans spend on vitamins & supplements each year. Some say $11 billion. Others say $20 billion. $30 billion. Some estimate up to $50 billion dollars a …
Telling someone you have multiple sclerosis is easy. Getting them to understand what you are feeling is a whole different ball game. If you have had MS for any length of time, you’ve come to know their curiosity. Heck, you may have even been asked what having MS feels like! With that I thought it …
It’s all about the big four….the Eastern…the Central…the Mountain…and the Pacific. Of course, I’m referring to the four time zones found here in the U.S. When I say “big,” I’m really talking about the Eastern, Central & Pacific only. The Mountain is like the ugly stepchild time zone no one cares about. And what’s with …
One cannot anticipate the unpredictability of MS. When you ying, it yangs. Go left, it goes right. Yep, multiple sclerosis has a mind of its own. And you can’t change it no matter what. So you better have a contingency plan. That’s what happened last week while doing some much needed weeding of the flower …
Since my diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (Class of 1996 Motto: “’96 we’re not hicks!”), this disease has come to define my life in many different ways. Some for the worse, but some, I must say, for the better. So, I thought I would jot down a few examples of what MS means to me…and share …
I thought I would kick back for a couple days so I called Dan Digmann to fill in. Dan & his lovely wife, Jennifer, both have MS and write for their own blog which you can find in the My Odd Sock blogroll below. Please enjoy Dan’s essay…”Make It Good”….. I’m not even trying to …
This was written for MEN with multiple sclerosis. Written from a man’s perspective. Understood by those of us with a “Y” chromosome. If females try to read this, they will become confused by the hidden, secret code words (topics only guys understand) scattered throughout in bold face type. I hear you brother—you got diagnosed with …
Like any disease, multiple sclerosis has its share of misinformation being circulated by word of mouth or via the Internet. While many, more credible sources, word to dispel the major myths of MS, here at My Odd Sock, we are busy clearing away the lesser known hearsay of our disease. With that, we present “MS …
