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Life with multiple sclerosis

Don’t Tase Me

“Don’t tase me bro!” Unnamed UF student 2007(?).     Epiphany. That word was once the bane of my existence. Back when I was a SOTIC instructor, I was at the range every morning an hour or two before the students, setting up the steel targets and repainting them as needed. It never failed. About 20 […]

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Background Life with multiple sclerosis

Creative Advocacy

Some time back……I’ve learned that if I actually think about how far back it really was, it will unnecessarily depress me, so, like I was saying, some time back, I found myself with my team in Kandahar, Afghanistan trying to catch a flight back to Bagram. It was unscheduled and we kept getting told that […]

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Life with multiple sclerosis

Fatigue

In an earlier post, I wrote about being tased and how it’s a near perfect way to describe my worst moments with MS. I also noted that the description only makes sense to a person who has been tased before, so it’s of limited value. At the end,I mentioned that I’d talk about fatigue later, […]