MS WARRIOR
Saturday, June 3, 2023
Multiple Sclerosis Awareness
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
In over thirty years of knowingly living with this disease, I have rarely heard about it unless a public figure was unfortunately diagnosed and revealed they had MS.
There have been a few times when people have said they had this horrible disease to steal funds for themselves. If people like that are so low to put a condition like this on their lives to steal, they surely deserve all the misery we endure. OK, well, just a little. I'm not backing off that. What perfect specimens they would be as its willing partners. They did ask for it, right? What a fantastic testimony it would be too.
This MonSter is wicked. It has taken me on a physical and emotional rollercoaster for over 50 years, with 20 of those years being undiagnosed.
Awareness matters, and with these numbers, MS, Awareness needs to matter to us, especially to those of us who live with the effects of this horrific disease.
There are nearly 1 million "others" of us living with MS in the US and over 2 million worldwide.
When our voices need to be heard, think about those numbers, and if we vote, then watch out.
We are all a commodity for the companies that sell the disease modifying drugs to us and make it appear this this disease is an easy one to live with as it seems in many of their advertisements. Ask me, and anyone I have ever known what this disease really is like.
Over the years, I have met many of us who are living with the compounded effects of balancing everything that "normalcy" is and then MS becoming an additional integral factor in just trying to live with it too.
About 35 years ago I was seriously hurt at work on 2 occasions. Long story, but the infringement of my and other folks rights forced and prompted my fight in advocacy.
It was then, I began interjecting my voice in the push to legalize the issues I found important to me. There was the American with Disabilities Act, EEOC complaints, passing the FMLA - Famly and Medical Leave Act, legalization of Medical Marijuana and this long drawn out MS battle that began in 1993 with the final diagnosis of this disease.
The fight for my justice in the workplace along with two other women who were terminated for job related injuries kept me in the fight. I have not yet told that story the way I have needed to because of the long term effects it has caused me.
I suffer everyday. MS just additionally wears me out as I live with the effects of both. It's either this or that, and still, I'm just trying to live, and now from a wheelchair. Thanks MS!
I do know our fight and our eventual wins kept countless others around the US and it's territories from losing their jobs caused by work related injuries. Back then, the precedent that would have been set that would have meant job related losses based on as they noted, "unrealibilty to perform the duties of our jobs." This is the extent I will address this issue for now. It's just too much!
Stay strong sisters and brothers. Gods word says "The race is not to the strong or swift, but he who endures to the end." 💕
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
Multiple Sclerosis Awareness
Friday, March 3, 2017
These are a sampling of the MS Collection I have posted on my website at
http://www.icypearljewelry.com/
I am raising the funds needed for stem cell transplantation and a ramp for the front of my home until we can move to more suitable living accommodations.
#CureMS #MultipleSclerosis
#NeverGiveUp!
#ApproveStemCellsfForMS
Thursday, January 21, 2016
I just had to take a moment to say that I AM GRATEFUL that this today I got up DETERMINED that COMPLETION of something I needed to start or finish would be scratched off a long list of to do's. Sharing this today was on my heart because there is someone that has something they have been needing or wanting to do has been too and has been put off for some reason or another.
My reasons for delays and putting offs are mainly due to this disease. #MultipleSclerosis is a thief of many things physical and at times mental/emotional. I am grateful that my put offs are seldom the latter. Those who are effected by this illness know all too well how #MS has stolen so many desires and intentions to do and complete their tasks. Today, at least, I will finish a couple. I encourage someone to do the same, especially if your obstacle to do is not as off putting as an illness for which there is no cure. Please include include in your daily prayers that a cure for MS is soon realized and revealed.
Have a blessed, productive and fulfilled day. If the sick can be that witness.....what then can anyone else push for?
#KEEPONPUSHING #MULTIPLESCLEROSISSUCKS #CUREMS