Blog van The World vs.MS

New digital technologies are taking hold in our lives apace. Everywhere you look, you see new ‘digital tools’ and other gadgets making the move from analogue to digital. Data, bills and all the other documents that were once on paper...

Soon after my diagnosis of MS, I realised that life was now all about give and take. I was giving up everything, MS was taking. Not only that, I was navigating a whole new world without a map – there...

So, you’ve been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis and, along with all of the emotional turmoil that comes with being diagnosed with a life-long condition, you’re also worried about work. The majority of MS diagnoses happen when people are in their...

“I’ll just do that for you!”, or “you can’t do that, you shouldn’t be doing that!”. It’s something that happens to all of us who live with MS from time to time, other people relishing in making our decisions for...

From my perspective On the morning of 5 December 2010, I fell to the floor when getting out of bed. The right side of my body no longer responded; I was paralysed on one side. I nevertheless had enough strength (the paralysis would worsen over the upcoming days) to drag myself into the living room...

Anybody living with MS will know that living with the disease is a marathon, not a sprint. With a variety of individual symptoms that can fluctuate and change over a lifetime,1 it can be easy to let MS creep in and take control. Small lifestyle changes can be made on a daily basis without you...

Some personality traits might make you less likely to step outside your comfort zone and to put up with things, such as MS symptoms or side effects from its treatment. But understanding how you approach things can help you to do them a bit differently. We’ve put together some questions to help you understand your...

Not long ago, I was chatting to a friend and I said to her: “Sometimes, people think that a miracle happened to me to be as I am, but that’s not what happened.” Dilma knowingly replied, “People see your smile, but they didn’t see your tears and what they want is to smile when they...

Quality of life is the phrase on everyone’s lips. Everyone strives for it. Generally speaking, it’s everything coming together that means people can lead a good life. Being happy and satisfied. Things like eating right, having a nice home, money for everything that’s good for you. Everyone has their own priorities, but there’s one factor that’s important for everyone: health.