All I want for Christmas - and I’m sure most people with a health condition want - is to Make my MS Disappear.

Of course it can’t disappear without radical treatment such as stem cell therapy. But to mark my half century on this earth, I am going to attempt to get my mind to be powerful enough to make my MS disappear.

Find out how the experiment is being conducted 

.. and see the goals that TO ME will help me feel as though my MS has disappeared.

Have you heard of Maslow's hierarchy of needs? I looked at this and then wondered when we live with MS, how far do we actually get along the hierarchy of needs?

How can you have a sense of belonging when you might not know what you belong to … Because you've got a diagnosis of MS? What does this mean? Who else is affected? Because everybody is different. I think even at those lower level qualities of Maslow's hierarchy there are some real barriers to achieving progress if we apply the model to a life with MS.

When I think about the challenges of living with MS and getting through every day, I do believe that there are some gaps.

I'm developing something that I know can address these gaps, and more.

What's a false dawn? I didn't really know … it was my husband that mentioned it to me.

You’d think I’d know better really. But quite clearly, I just don't know any better ... even after 25 years living with Multiple Sclerosis!

By the time I got to day four, I was pretty much back to where I was before the Epiphany - the false dawn.

I was pretty much back to stiff, slow, heavy legs. But this time around, there were no tears as there have been on my previous false dawns.

The car behind continued to follow even when she took a right turn in the dark and then a left turn in the dark.

She’d been nodding her head to her favourite hip-hop tracks.

From behind, in the dark, maybe she’d looked like a guy …. a guy by himself. No big deal?

Want to know how to be taken seriously at the doctors? Make sure you establish a team approach and agree action?

Here are a series of tips and recommendations to help ....

In this blog I explore 3 big questions about MS and Work.

Whether you're newly diagnosed or have been living with MS for a while there's a lot to think about .... and there are some things you might not be ready to admit to yourself or others just yet.

So, how will you manage your future?

"I couldn’t walk without support and I couldn’t drive because my arms and legs were too weak. 

.... I was battling to get through the day without anybody noticing how difficult things were. I felt like crying, I felt so alone because I was keeping this all secret.

.... It wasn’t so much about my boss's reaction, it was more about my own bloody-mindedness to not be impacted by the condition.

So next time I’m in a pilates class and feeling stuck, and feeling upset, while I'm remembering that six months ago I was able to do this move ...  I've learned to focus on what I can still do ..... and acknowledge that the wheels of grief will still keep turning.

...  borrow (or in this case hire) a self-propelled wheelchair. That way it definitely wasn’t a permanent admission to being a wheelchair user.

...  the pushing of this inebriated, whale-proportioned, hospitality-seeking, wheelchair-using MS’er. 

Whilst I do think I am successful, being able to explain why I think this is rather a challenge. . I hope you don’t mind indulging me? Life goals reaching as far as age 35? ? Life doesn’t end at 35! ….. Or does it?..... At the age of 26 I was diagnosed with .........