What 37 Years with MS Taught Me About Living with COVID
By Mark Davis Pickup She gazed out the kitchen window, not looking at anything in particular. My wife LaRee was contemplating. “I wonder if we’ll…
By Mark Davis Pickup She gazed out the kitchen window, not looking at anything in particular. My wife LaRee was contemplating. “I wonder if we’ll…
By Mark Davis Pickup Being one of the vulnerable populations at particular risk of COVID-19 (multiple sclerosis & hypertension), I haven’t attended church in months!…
By Mark Davis Pickup Having a neurological disease like multiple sclerosis, I’ve become acutely aware of the brain and its power over the body and…
By Judie Brown Personal mortality dawns on most of us early in life. Though that’s not a bad thing, we must realize that there are…
By Mark Davis Pickup After 16 years confined to an electric wheelchair with severe multiple sclerosis, the disease slowly began moving into partial remission. I…
By Mark Davis Pickup I have had multiple sclerosis for 35 years. It’s a horrible disease. Multiple sclerosis has dragged me through many frightening disabilities…
By Mark Davis Pickup “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” It was in His terrible agony of being crucified, Jesus cried those…
2016 was the year Canada legalized medical killing which we euphemistically call “medical assistance in dying” (MAID)—previously known as physician assisted suicide.
By Mark Davis Pickup
There was a change in how I viewed being chronically ill for more than three decades.
By Mark Davis Pickup
The onset of multiple sclerosis is sudden. I went dead from the waist down. I could not distinguish something hot from something cold.
By Mark Davis Pickup
I encountered a young man who is confronted with newly acquired and profound physical disability.
By Mark Davis Pickup
This past weekend I met four other people with multiple sclerosis. It was not by design. I met them at events that had nothing to do with MS or disability.