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Connect and learn with others who are new to #MultipleSclerosis and navigating their own journeys. This program offers info about MS and its symptoms, and advice on how to manage your MS. Ask questions of a health care professional, and share your own experiences.

This program is offered virtually and in-person. The virtual program repeats every 2nd Thursday of the month.

Sign up, or find a program near you: secure.nationalmssociety.org/site/Calendar

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Damien Washington has a ton of fun, useful vlogs on MS-related topics we can all relate to. He's someone who feels like a friend.

Vlogs - Damian Washington

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Well-spouses deserve support too.

www.nationalmssociety.org/managing-ms/for-carepartners

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Keep frozen berries in your freezer. You can use the bag as a cooling pillow — but it's better to roll them around in your mouth!

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This program's been going for decades, because it works. You're not alone.

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It helps me sleep, with my kicking, cramping legs, and anxiety.

Dedicated to my dear, late friend Marcia, who got hooked on opioids trying to escape MS-related pain.

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Chronic illness made me tough. But there's one friend breakup that still messes with my head, 20+ years later.

"Losing friends during illness is a painful and often unexpected experience. When you're struggling with chronic illness, disability, or long-term recovery, the people you once counted on may disappear. But why do friends abandon you when you're sick? Is it discomfort, avoidance, or something deeper?"

Why Friends Abandon You During Illness | Chronic Illness & Friendship

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Chronic illness made me tough. But there's one friend breakup that still messes with my head, 20+ years later.

"Losing friends during illness is a painful and often unexpected experience. When you're struggling with chronic illness, disability, or long-term recovery, the people you once counted on may disappear. But why do friends abandon you when you're sick? Is it discomfort, avoidance, or something deeper?"

Why Friends Abandon You During Illness | Chronic Illness & Friendship

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Rory's sells frozen treats for pickup and ships Giant Chocolate Chip Cookies nationwide. Kandel shared her challenges and her love of baking on Christina Applegate's and Jamie-Lynn Sigler's podcast. Since then, people have been reaching out to her with their own MS stories and she feels “much less alone” in her battle with the disease.

“I had the decision to make whether I was going to hide or be open (about MS),” she said. “I worried about how it was going to affect my business, and all it’s done is create a sense of support I never could have imagined I would have."

Excerpts and story from The Press Democrat (Sonoma), photo Emma K Creative, Local baker appears on celebrity podcast to talk about living with MS

MeSsy podcast with Rory Kandel, podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-beauty-of-the-invisible-di...

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