Another abnormal sensation that can occur in people with MS is Lhermitte’s sign: a sudden sensation that feels like an electric shock passing down the back of a person’s neck and into the spine, which may then radiate out into the limbs. Lhermitte’s sign is usually triggered by bending...
I work through the pain. I did not cancel a class when I was suffering vertigo, I warned my clients that I might tip over, but I taught the class. When a MS hug constricted my breathing, I taught spin class.
My heart feels like it was yesterday, yet the MS part of me feels like it was decades ago. The taste of creamed corn lingering in my mouth, and Dr. Fedorenko saying “Just breathe…” as my once frozen stem cells were being reintroduced to my body will likely never vacate my memory ...
One of the symptoms I have is calledMS hug. It’s a tightness around the torso that feels like I just did 500 sit-ups. And it feels like that, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It’s hard to run when you feel like that. So, in hearing this guy’s story, I got some hope...
, and they don’t even know what wind feels like. (“Is it just like being breathed on, kind of?”) The Innies’ innumerable questions show now only what kind of disadvantage their limited knowledge offers when going toe to toe with their unsevered bosses; it emphasizes how fully they’...
She loves her mother and father and follows the traditions established by her culture and religion, but she also feels intimidated by them, particularly her mother, over their disapproval of her interests as well as their overly traditionalist ways which Khan feels like keep her from being ...
I now know that it was the MS hug, but at the time, the only thing I could equate it to, is the feeling of the baby moving when you are big-time pregnant. When the baby decides to pull off a backflip inside and there isn’t any room left for such shenanigans there is a of ...
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of rivers,” where the Tomebamba, Yanuncay, Tarqui and Machangara rivers—all which part of the Amazon river watershed—meet up in the colonial town. It’s no wonder that Cuenca feels like a place of meeting and congregating with mountains that surround it at all sides like a big hug....
Christmas feels like a way he can still be connected to his sister. In a terrible mix up (or is it Christmas fate?) Sam ends up going on Emmie’s scavenger hunt and finding himself at Christmas Point. And that’s all I will say! This was such a fun read. I was really worried ...