February 15, 2017 Columns by Cathy Chester Stress and MS: Webinar from IOMSN Helps Manage Daily Stress When you live with multiple sclerosis, stress is unavoidable. Your first experience with the stress of MS is when you’re diagnosed. As you move forward, you begin experiencing not only “normal” stress, but also the stress of living with a chronic illness. Stress…
February 8, 2017 Columns by Cathy Chester Create a Self-Care Plan to Use During Challenging Times Americans are feeling more anxious than ever. It’s not politics as usual, but politics as unusual. People who never were politically active find themselves raising their voices to make a difference. In the MS community, raising our voices is not something new.
January 25, 2017 Columns by Cathy Chester LiveWiseMS: A New Online Resource for People with MS There’s a new kid in town by the name of LiveWiseMS. Partnering with the International Organization of MS Nurses (IOMSN), LiveWiseMS has already become a trusted resource for patients and care partners looking for answers about MS. The website’s mission is…
January 11, 2017 Columns by Cathy Chester Speak Up, Truthfully, About ‘Unseen’ But Real MS Symptoms When thinking about multiple sclerosis (MS), it’s important to remember there are four distinct types of the disease. Most of you well know this, so I’ll just mention them here: relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS); secondary progressive MS; primary progressive MS, and clinically isolated syndrome. (Anyone needing or wishing more information…
December 14, 2016 Columns by Cathy Chester From the ‘Dark Ages’ to Now … Let’s Start at the Very Beginning I’ve been mulling over what to write for my initial post for Multiple Sclerosis News Today. I want to make a splash, to keep you interested and let you know who I am and why I’m here. As Rogers and Hammerstein wrote in The Sound…
