MS, REO and grown-up choices
Perhaps I am showing my age, but I am a big fan of the 80s rock band REO Speedwagon. My college years memories are filled with my good friend Amy and me being on the grassy hill at DTE Energy…
Perhaps I am showing my age, but I am a big fan of the 80s rock band REO Speedwagon. My college years memories are filled with my good friend Amy and me being on the grassy hill at DTE Energy…
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…
I’m sure my brother, Mark, doesn’t remember my one win against him on the Carpenter Elementary concrete court back in Monticello, Iowa. Thankfully I never forgot the lesson that 10-8 win taught me. “He always won. Sometimes by a score…
Five hours from start to finish. Really, four hours is more accurate. The entire bag of Rituximab flowed through my body in four hours. Pretty good, if I may say so. That first hour was spent trying to get my…
Gambling just isn’t Jennifer and my thing. Sure, we will go to the nearby Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort and play the slots from time to time. But this happens only after we specify exactly how much we’re willing to…
Welcome to this Throwback Thursday post on A Couple Takes On MS, where we repost some of our favorite essays over the past 14 years since we launched our blog. These will appear on the last Thursday of each month,…
Neurologist, The Boster Center for Multiple Sclerosis President and Founder, MS Vlogger Welcome to “7 Questions with A Couple,” a monthly series that includes quick conversations with a variety of experts and influencers from throughout the MS community. We truly can’t…
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,…
It must have been the living room lights that made my ring sparkle so radiantly. I was mesmerized by the beauty. All the beauty captured in my wedding ring. Ironic. Beauty forged from an ugly disease. Dan and I give…
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…