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57 reasons I’m going vegan according to nursingdegree.net

57 reasons I’m going vegan according to nursingdegree.net

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Starting Saturday I will be following a plant based diet. Why Saturday? One of my birthday gifts from my sister and brother-in-law was a gift certificate to Terra Kitchen. They are a home delivery food company that sends the ingredients and you put the meal together. The difference is they cut the ingredients for you which for me is tremendous because I can’t do that anymore.  My first delivery is Saturday. I also ordered from Veestro the 21 day kick…

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Let’s talk about SEX and multiple sclerosis

Let’s talk about SEX and multiple sclerosis

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According to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society: Sexual problems are often experienced by people with MS, but they are very common in the general population as well. Sexual arousal begins in the central nervous system, as the brain sends messages to the sexual organs along nerves running through the spinal cord. If MS damages these nerve pathways, sexual response — including arousal and orgasm — can be directly affected. Sexual problems also stem from MS symptoms such as fatigue or…

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Bladder issues with multiple sclerosis

Bladder issues with multiple sclerosis

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I’ve blogged on this issue before but I wanted to revisit it again. I HAVE BLADDER ISSUES. I can have both hesitancy and incontinence. However my incontinence is more that I get the feeling I have to go to the bathroom and have a very short amount of time to get there.  What happens, and this I’ll never understand, is as I get closer to the bathroom that’s when my bladder starts to release, thus the accident. I wanted to…

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Sometimes you can not hate your MS

Sometimes you can not hate your MS

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I don’t know if I can go so far as to say I am thankful for my MS, but I know I could say I’m thankful for the good days. I know I could say I’m thankful that I don’t have the symptoms of the pain.  I give a lot of credit to those out there that suffer from chronic pain. That is the one symptom I really don’t know if I can deal with 24/7. So for all my…

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Multiple sclerosis in Yoda’s words

Multiple sclerosis in Yoda’s words

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Star Wars, The a Empire Strikes Back. My favorite of the original trilogy movies. Why? It’s the struggle the dark side the bleak unknown of the outcome. It has hope though as Luke and Leia watch Lando Calrissiam fly away in the Millennium Falcon in search of Han Solo. When it came out in what 1980 never thought that certain lines would play in my head when relative to having multiple sclerosis. This line Yoda says does. It’s because I…

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A 10 year reflection life, MS and a world of changes

A 10 year reflection life, MS and a world of changes

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It’s my birthday tomorrow. For some reason I woke up a little sad today. I think I actually became sad yesterday. I’m always sad at the middle year marks 25, 35 and now 45.  I took turning 30 and 40 fine. It seems I’m alone in the 5’s.  My divorce started right when I was turning 35.  It was such a monumental change in my life. I was still in my house.  I still have five cats running around. Boomer…

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Understanding the daily struggle with multiple sclerosis

Understanding the daily struggle with multiple sclerosis

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First let me start off by saying this is at my stage of the disease and my stage of the progression. It is not everybody’s MS path nor is it where you will surely be if your newly diagnosed. Everybody’s multiple sclerosis is different. On Valentine’s Day weekend in 2017 it will be 19 years I’ve had MS. It’s been a long time. I could be 1000 times worse and even though I struggle every single day, understand that I…

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I built a dog run

I built a dog run

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Well  now I’ve been trying to train Boomer to go to the bathroom. Boomer is the big one first picture. He’ll pee out here but he hasn’t pooped out here yet. Unfortunately he is over 10 years old and he’s used to being walked so it’s going to take some time.  But I’m patient. I got cookies in my pocket and eventually will get there. But today I’m just hanging out hoping for the miracle.  I did this for the future…

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U2hearts, Raven, tattoos of who I was and who I am

U2hearts, Raven, tattoos of who I was and who I am

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U2HEARTS This was my license plate for more then 15 years. It was from U2-Two Hearts on the War album, my favorite U2 album. It is my email address as well. I recently turned in my plates and became incognito driving around town. I gave my old car to my daughter and leased a new car. A black car. I haven’t owned a black car since I was 17 years old and totaled my black car the day after I…

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Follow up to learning your truth, love over fear

Follow up to learning your truth, love over fear

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I never commented on this picture yesterday. I found this on a U2’s website written in Bono’s handwriting but signed by Bono, Edge, Adam and Larry. I don’t know if it’s going to be a new song or if it was just something they were doodling but it was so fitting and they’re my favorite. Yesterday I wrote to my coach before I spoke to her and asked her to read my blog. I received an email that simply said…

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