FUMS: Giving Multiple Sclerosis The Finger

Kathy Reagan Young
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FUMS: Giving Multiple Sclerosis The Finger

A podcast providing information, inspiration and motivation for living your best life with Multiple Sclerosis. Learn to speak to this disease as it deserves - tell it FUMS every day!

  1. FUMS 119 - National Lampoon's Chronically Ill Christmas with The MS Pod Squad

    11/22/2022

    FUMS 119 - National Lampoon's Chronically Ill Christmas with The MS Pod Squad

    Being a podcaster can be a lonely life. So what better way to begin the holiday celebrations than getting some of your favorite MSers together to talk about our plans for the season? Alongside my guests, we talk about some of the things that can play on our minds during this time of year, particularly when combined with having a chronic illness like MS. Dan & Jennifer Digmann talk about how to handle the stresses of maintaining relationships. Ardra Shephard is here to talk about...

    49 min
  2. FUMS 118 - Comic Artist and MSer Brooke Pelczynski's Perfect, Shitty Situation

    11/01/2022

    FUMS 118 - Comic Artist and MSer Brooke Pelczynski's Perfect, Shitty Situation

    Brooke Pelczynski's life with Multiple Sclerosis is an inspiring example of someone taking their diagnosis and turning it into something great. Most recently, her varied career has led to her working for Marvel Comics!Brooke was undertaking her BFA in Illustration in New York when the fatigue and clumsiness that resulted in a number of ruined artworks was diagnosed as Multiple Sclerosis - at the age of only 21. Although she now feels that MS had crippled her career, Brooke has since used her ...

    25 min

  3. 10/18/2022

    FUMS 117 - Mind, Mood, and Memory in Multiple Sclerosis w/ Dr. Anthony Feinstein

    MS is often described as an invisible disability. But as the disease progresses, the focus - of patients as well as medical professionals - can shift to more visible, physical symptoms, like mobility issues.However, because the majority of people with MS are diagnosed in their 20s and 30s, the psychological and cognitive effects can all too often go untreated. And these symptoms are just as common as the outward ones. In fact, as you'll hear, these may be even more common, with 50% of all peo...

    27 min

  4. 10/04/2022

    FUMS 116 - Managing Daily Life as MS Progresses w/Jenn Powell

    My guest today is Jenn Powell. She's an active advocate in the MS community, imparting her hopeful optimism to the real-life challenges facing those of us living with MS. Now with secondary-progressive MS, Jenn continues to elevate the patient voice to better the lives of our community.Jenn is the Brand and Marketing Manager for BioNews, an organization that strives to create dynamic communities that give patients and caregivers a powerful voice. Jenn also writes for Multiple Sclerosis News T...

    35 min

  5. 09/20/2022

    FUMS 115 - MSer Sue Casey says "Grab The Happy!"

    If you're connected with Multiple Sclerosis in any way - whether you're a patient, or a caregiver, family member, or loved one of somebody with the disease - it's easy (and NATURAL) to live in the what-ifs. We can all wallow in the negatives - hey, there's a reason why this podcast is called FUMS!But Sue Casey, my guest today, tries to live by a different mantra - "Grab The Happy!"Sue has been living with MS for nearly 50 years. This means that when she was first diagnosed, they didn't have M...

    20 min

  6. 09/06/2022

    FUMS 114 - The Art of Rebellion With Kick-Ass MSer Lydia Emily

    Content warning: this episode includes a discussion about Lydia's personal experiences of Primary Progressive MS and her plans with regards to Death with Dignity, aka Suicide.Lydia Emily Archibald is an artist to her core. She was born in Chicago to globe-trotting activist parents, and this laid the foundation for her socially-conscious and politically-motivated artworks, including the creation of large-scale murals. Lydia Emily's work has been featured at gallery shows in Milan, Berlin, Los ...

    53 min

  7. 08/23/2022

    FUMS 113 - An Invitation From Dr. Terry Wahls To Be Part of Her Latest Study

    More and more often, we're all hearing and talking about the use of diet and lifestyle as a way to manage chronic illness - and not just on the FUMS Podcast! In this episode, Dr. Terry Wahls (now officially our most featured guest) is here to tell us all about how we can get involved in her latest study, which asks a couple of simple but important questions: Can diet improve my quality of life with MS? And which diet is the best? If you don't know by now, Dr. Terry Wahls is an Institute ...

    20 min

  8. 08/09/2022

    FUMS 112 - Using Pilates to Combat MS with Mariska Breland

    The truth has been out for a long time - exercise is good for MS and other neurological conditions. But of all of the programs suggested for us, how many of them really know what it's like to live with MS?My guest today is Mariska Breland. She was a video producer living a very high-stress life when she was diagnosed with MS at the age of 27. She started doing Yoga and Pilates and eventually began teaching Pilates, ultimately turning it into her full-time job. Mariska has created multipl...

    53 min
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A podcast providing information, inspiration and motivation for living your best life with Multiple Sclerosis. Learn to speak to this disease as it deserves - tell it FUMS every day!

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