by Corin Hopkins | Feb 17, 2016 | Real Stories
My name is Corin Hopkins and I was diagnosed with Relapsing Remmitting Multiple Sclerosis in November 2011. I am now a senior at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. College life with MS is a challenge. It can be rough when your friends want to go out but...
by Admin Account | Oct 21, 2015 | Real Stories
Without my teenager, I probably wouldn’t be where I am right now. MS crashed unexpectedly into our lives in 2011 – a destructive meteor. Neither of us were prepared and life as we knew it disappeared as the sun set and I lay on a hospital bed contemplating the future,...
by Kate Milliken | Oct 1, 2015 | Powerful Moments, Real Stories
The Hippocratic Oath states “I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being”. Does your doctor treat you like a human being? Multiple sclerosis, commonly known as MS, has symptoms that are easily quantified as well as...
by Kate Milliken | Sep 4, 2015 | MCP Interactive, Real Stories
It started with the confusion of your first symptoms. Maybe you first noticed the numbness or suddenly lost your vision. Then came the neurologists and endless MRIs. The waiting game. And then…an answer. Maybe you felt shock, relief, disbelief, fear, grief,...
by Kate Milliken | Aug 14, 2015 | Real Stories
Graduation! I have always been a driven person, and my MS diagnosis has only made this determination stronger. After my diagnosis, I considered dropping out of my graduate school nursing program and quitting entirely. I became immediately certain that I could not...
by Kate Milliken | Jul 30, 2015 | Powerful Moments, Real Stories
Getting diagnosed with ms is one of those moments in life that you’ll never forget. It’s much like the assassination of JFK, 9/11 and Miley Cyrus’ VMA performance in 2013 – you know where you were and the horror you felt seeing the news. While...
