Disability • MS
February 17, 2020
It can’t all be big events and videos!Today I show you perhaps the smallest equipment I use. Adaptive cutlery. The first three are obvious, but the last two travel everywhere with me and are attached to cutlery when I eat… Continue Reading…
February 17, 2020
Today is the biggest walk day across the country! I was invited to our neighbour’s walk – South Okanagan Chapter, in Penticton – to speak at the start in my role as an MS Ambassador. The Ambassador program gives chapters… Continue Reading…
February 17, 2020
Today Ian and I were invited out to lunch. MS wasn’t invited but it came too. Going to visit friends takes very good friends. First they have to know your schedule. Lunch? Sure! How does 11am work for you! And… Continue Reading…
Disability • Mobility • MS
February 17, 2020
I started with a stick or two and a walker. Within 6 months I added the manual chair, but couldn’t move it by myself. I used my feet on the floor in the house. Then I ordered the big chair,… Continue Reading…
February 17, 2020
And today – video!!! With music!!! As we saw yesterday, I have all kinds of nifty equipment to help me. This has to be the biggest, though! When you use a wheelchair, you realise that not only do you have… Continue Reading…
February 17, 2020
Let it not be said that I’m not prepared to put it all out there for MS Awareness!!! I thought I’d start showing you some of the extra equipment I use to help me. We have a hot tub. Ian… Continue Reading…
February 17, 2020
I mentioned my trip to my GP last week and how she was doing my neurological exam “wrong” or at least not as thoroughly as I was used to. I thought I would devote a post just to the exam,… Continue Reading…
February 17, 2020
I was going to write on something else today, until I saw this story on CBC, all here in Kelowna. MRIs are crucial for lots of MS patients, as they show that type of active lesion I talked about. In… Continue Reading…
February 17, 2020
If you saw me and wondered what the most disabling feature of my MS is, you might say not being able to walk, because I’m in a wheelchair. Wrong!!!! It’s fatigue.Something like 80% of people with MS have fatigue and… Continue Reading…
February 17, 2020
Earlier this week I posted the drugs I take daily and one was this little bottle. It’s called Sativex.Sativex is a prescription drug made from cannabis. Wow – what? She takes pot? She sure does! Pot contains two main drugs… Continue Reading…
