Blog van The World vs.MS

  How have your priorities changed since being diagnosed with MS? Considering I have been living with Multiple Sclerosis for over ten years since I was diagnosed, my objectives have changed hugely. When I was first diagnosed with MS, I...

  What feelings did you have when you were first diagnosed with MS? When the diagnosis arrives it takes us by surprise, not only because we don’t know what’s wrong, but because we learn that there is still no cure...

  What feelings did you have when you were first diagnosed with MS? MS has never been known for its great timing. In 2011, I was in the middle of changing career direction, my son was about to start high...

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...