Episode 19 – Thankfulness in spite of MS
Jennifer and Dan discuss maintaining perspective and being thankful for what they have; positive things that MS hasn’t taken and positives they wouldn’t have without the disease in their lives.
Episode 18 – Bean The Cat, part 2
Ryan returns to Casa Digmann for a chit-chat episode that mainly focused on Bean and what the future may hold for the fuzzy fellow. The defacto podcast mascot, Bean, only cares about food, eating, more food, and sometimes playing, but the trio were giving him none of that during recording, so he laid in the […]
Episode 17 – Stay competitive with MS
Dan & Jen fly solo again this week, as Producer Ryan is busy moving into a new place. The couple discusses using a competitive nature in your bag of tricks to deal with Multiple Sclerosis. Dan uses sports as a way to describe battling against the rival team of MS. Dan brings some power with […]
Episode 16 – Our initial tale of 2 MS DMT infusions
It was a big week for us as we both were scheduled to receive our respective twice-a-year MS disease-modifying therapy infusions. Sure, Jennifer has taken her Rituxan for about five or six years (we address how time, perceived success or just getting older makes it easy to forget), but Dan was preparing to take his […]
Episode 15 – Celebrating our bookish decade with MS
Ten years have passed since we released our first book, Despite MS, to Spite MS. The book was our heartfelt effort to share a collection of personal essays about key moments in our life with this disease. In this episode, we reflect on what led us to write this book in the first place, weigh […]
Episode 14 – Weighing in on Diet and MS
Chew on this: there’s a ton of information out there about the impact of diet on Multiple Sclerosis. We’re not sure about you, but we’ve had our fill of reading about everything from the Swank Diet to the Wahl’s Protocol and the role gut bacteria plays in caring for our bodies. So, we’ve decided to […]
Episode 13 – Famous MSers: Help or hinderance?
For people who are living with Multiple Sclerosis, what does it do for us when a famous person is diagnosed with MS? Does it help our community to increase awareness of the realities we’re facing or does it hinder us because their realities are different from ours? After all, don’t they have ready access to […]
Episode 12 – Bean the Cat
Jennifer, Dan, and Ryan are joined for the recording by Ryan’s cat, Bean. The first guest! Though he wasn’t interested (or able) to talk; but there are some meows, purrs, and lots of discussion about him. They all discuss their pet experiences and preferences in relation to the Digmann’s adopting Bean. The magic of pets […]
Episode 11 – Ship Show
“That’s why I’m Captaining the Ship Show today… that’s ‘Ship.’ With a ‘P.’” – Jennifer Few things are more frustrating than when a medical provider has the narrative written and writes you off … before the appointment even starts. Jennifer grabs the wheel and takes this show out for a quick little voyage featuring some […]
Episode 10 – Time to Talk
Not quite a lounge hour (since no booze was had) but Jen, Dan, & Ryan go sans-topic this week to just chit chat. Chew the fat. Jibber Jabber. Flap their gums… and so on.They catch up on recent life events: Dan & Jen talk traveling during Covid & going to events during Covid and the […]