Episode 48 – Taking on MS Disrupted with Kathy Chester
Step aside, Multiple Sclerosis. You’re getting in Kathy Chester’s way. To say Kathy, who has had MS for 20+ years, is on the move is an understatement. She’s on a mission, and we recently caught up with her to chat about what drives her to keep herself and others with MS moving forward. Join us […]
Episode 47 – Taking on Rare Disease Day
Imagine if we all took the time to go beyond what’s comfortable. This is exactly what Jennifer did when she investigated whether multiple sclerosis is considered a rare disease. Turns out it is, and just like that, our disease-related community is no longer defined by the estimated 2.5 million people worldwide who have MS. Jennifer […]
Episode 46 – Taking on real-life MS with Tyler Campbell
We can’t say enough about Tyler Campbell and the impact he is having on us and members of the Multiple Sclerosis community. You need to hear him for yourself. We are so honored to share with you in this podcast a lively heartfelt conversation we had with Tyler – an author, public speaker, MS ambassador […]
Episode 45 – MS isn’t worth the weight
These three thoughts keep going through Jennifer’s mind after ever since Dan turned 50 in September: “Here we go again.” “If it is worth doing, it is worth doing again.” “Nothing worth having is easy to get.” Seeing Dan hitting the half-century mark reminded Jennifer that her 50th will be here before she knows it. […]
Episode 44 – We’ve got the MS drugs, but what’s next?
We celebrated with the Multiple Sclerosis community as TG Therapeutics announced in the final days of 2022 that the FDA approved Briumvi (ublituximab-xiiy), putting the number of available MS disease-modifying therapies to more than 25. Hooray, right? Of course! But deep down we, as A Couple Takes on MS, still felt somewhat shortchanged. We selfishly […]
Episode 43 – Committed to challenging us with MS
We’re going beyond New Year’s resolutions in 2023. Who’s with us? OK, so what we’re talking about technically isn’t a resolution. It really is more of a commitment to hold ourselves accountable to our personal challenges to improve ourselves in different aspects of life. Join us in this episode as we follow up on the […]
Episode 42 – Check-ins & check-ups go way beyond MS
It’s hard to conceptualize, but Multiple Sclerosis doesn’t hold the market on our health concerns. In fact, we see other health care providers a lot more often than we connect with our neurologist. For real. On the surface, these scheduled check-ins often have nothing to do with our chronic disease of the central nervous system. […]
Episode 41 – MS in Their Voices
New segment – MS in Their Voices – launches A new segment for our podcast is MS in Their Voices. This segment features the writing of MS authors who will read to you the powerful words of their personal essays, poetry and prose. Our first featured author is Tamara Sellman. She is the author of […]
Episode 40 – Louie Preciado and his newly diagnosed perspectives
In this episode, we pull in our friend Louie Preciado to share his perspectives as a person recently diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. He was formally diagnosed December 1, 2021. This diagnosis didn’t stop him from achieving his goal to ride the Texas MS150 in April 2022 and six months later finish the MS Ride to […]
Episode 39 – Covid, Cats, and Catsup
This one is another Ketchup Episode where Dan, Jennifer, and Ryan just chit-chat. This talk starts with the Digmann’s discussing their diagnosis of Covid. That leads into Ryan sharing news about his Grandma, it’s sad, so be warned. They do pick it up at the end with talk of Ryan’s new kitten, (unnamed at time […]