It’s challenging enough living with Multiple Sclerosis when you are settled into the comforts of your home, but the stresses compound when you venture out on an overnight trip.
Gone is your strategically crafted accessible environment and you find yourself in the middle of MS adaptability uncertainties. As in: Where is the next handicap-accessible restroom on the road? Is the hotel room truly barrier-free? Are there steps to enter the restaurant where we are meeting our friends for dinner? Will I have access to a roll-in shower? Is the hotel bed tall enough to make safe transfers?
Yes, the list goes on and on; all to ensure you get the most out of your much-anticipated adventure.
Join us for this episode as we use our recent road trips to a friend’s wedding in southern Indiana and to visit family back in Iowa to highlight the tips, tricks and hacks we’ve learned over our past 22 years together to make traveling with MS a manageable and enjoyable endeavor.
Learn about everything that ranges from:
• What is our best pre-trip evening meal
• Why is it isn’t enough to request a handicapped-accessible hotel room
• How you can instantly turn a standard interstate rest area restroom into a private family restroom
• Road tripping with an incessant supply of ice-cold bottled water
• Giving yourself permission to unapologetically oversleep and overpack
Take 32 minutes to learn about these tips and more that will help you maximize the next time you travel with MS. And be sure to share your tips and hacks with us and our listeners! Submit it to acoupletakesonms@gmail.com, and we will add it to the our discussion in a future episode of A Couple Takes on MS Podcast.