#walk ms

Some of you that have been around my blogs since the beginning know that I live with MS (multiple sclerosis) and that at times it can be a fuck all of a disease. You also probably know that each year I Captain a team in our local MS walk. Over 6 years I’ve raised nearly 7k to help fight MS and it would mean the world to me for any help from my tumblr family.

Now what is MS? So in your body you have this thing called a Myelin Sheath that protects certain nerves. It’s ESSENTIAL for your body to run properly. What MS does is it eats away  that covering. My favorite analogy to remember what it does: It’s like an electrical cord and something has been chewing at the outer covering, exposing the wires and causing misfires usually inside your brain and spinal cord. Some days it’s annoying, some days it’s painful. Some days all i want to do is sleep even if I slept most of the day before. My own personal battles have involved Seizures, what I refer to as the tingles, fatigue, double vision, and good ol’ memory loss. And then there are days (most of my days, thankfully) that I am perfectly fine. All thanks to my medication and the advances they’ve made. Which is where all the money goes and they have come so far in the seven short years I’ve been diagnosed.

So help a girl out, if you can’t donate, please share! And hey if you’re in Florida in April, stop by and join in the fun. We’ll have cupcakes.

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Some of you that have been around since the beginning know that I live with MS and that at times it can be a fuck all of a disease. You also probably know that each year I Captain a team in our local MS walk. Over 5 years I’ve raised nearly 6k to help fight MS and it would mean the world to me for any help from my tumblr family.

Now what is MS? So in your body you have this thing called a Myelin Sheath that protects certain nerves. It’s ESSENTIAL for your body to run properly. What MS does is it eats away  that covering. My favorite analogy to remember what it does: It’s like an electrical cord and something has been chewing at the outer covering, exposing the wires and causing misfires usually inside your brain and spinal cord. Some days it’s annoying, some days it’s painful. Some days all i want to do is sleep even if I slept most of the day before. My own personal battles have involved Seizures, what I refer to as the tingles, fatigue, double vision, and good ol’ memory loss. And then there are days (most of my days, thankfully) that I am perfectly fine. All thanks to my medication and the advances they’ve made. Which is where all the money goes and they have come so far in the six short years I’ve been diagnosed.

So help a girl out, if you can’t donate, please share! And hey if you’re in Florida in April, stop by and join in the fun. We’ll have cupcakes.

Hey guys I’m going to do something that I’ve been debating about doing for awhile now. I’m doing a fundraiser for a charity called Walk MS. This specific charity raises money for the MS Society and has walks around the US every year.  (Their website: nationalmssociety.org) I’ve been walking and raising money for three years now and it means a lot to my family. My mom suffers from it and my sister and I have been working hard to raise money in order to find a cure. MS is a terrible disease and (gladly) has started gaining some notice in the media. If you want to read more about it I suggest visiting these sites: (nationmssociety.org/What-is-MS and mslifelines.com/what-is-ms) 

Okay guys, this is very important to me. 

Almost 6 years ago I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis.  I am asking you to support me in Walk MS because this is a cause that is meaningful to me.  Millions of people are affected by MS and the challenges of living with its unpredictable symptoms. Multiple sclerosis interrupts the flow of information between the brain and the body and it stops people from moving. Every hour in the United States, someone is newly diagnosed with MS, a disease of the central nervous system. Symptoms range from numbness and tingling to blindness and paralysis. The progress, severity and specific symptoms of MS in any one person cannot yet be predicted, but advances in research and treatment are moving us closer to a world free of MS.

It is a disease that we are still learning from and we have come so far in medicines and treatments and I hope one day there will be a cure.