As you know from yesterday’s post describing my family’s own experience with Multiple Sclerosis, this week is MS Awareness Week. I won’t repeat what I’ve already said (except to plug Team Dave, of course!), but I wanted to share with you what training for this type of event is like. I am basically as out [...]

Approximately 200 people are diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) each week–that’s about one person every hour of every day. In 2001, one of those people was my father-in-law, Dave (pictured here with his wife, my mother-in-law, Patty, and their four grandchildren). After 11 years of on-again, off-again symptoms (very typical for his “course” or type [...]