Ep 23 – MS & Covid-19 in 2022
“We look at everything through the lens of people living with Multiple Sclerosis. Covid-19 affects the entire population, but how does it affect two people with multiple sclerosis taking medication to control the progression of the disease …” Yes, it’s a new year, but Covid isn’t going anywhere. As we recorded this first episode of […]
Episode 22 – If not now, when?
Businesses don’t find success just by winging it. They succeed because they have concrete mission statements and targeted objectives that guide them to pinnacle performance. Why should it be any different for you and the goals you set for yourself? Turning over the calendar to a new year is a great place to develop a […]
Episode 21 – Holiday Hacks
A classic song of the holiday season gleefully encourages us all to believe this is “the most wonderful time of the year.” This is a great sentiment overall and in theory, but we also know it can be one of the most stressful, frantic, lonely, overwhelming, taxing and (insert your adjective here) time of the […]
Episode 20 – Feeling guilty about having MS
Do you ever feel guilty about having MS? Guilty, as though you deserve to have it or that it’s all your fault? We both have had MS for more than two decades, and we know we did nothing to deserve it or bring it upon ourselves. But, we still have these feelings more often than […]
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 […]