I was a healthy person, born in 1963, never getting sick, never catching bugs, even as a mom, when the kids brought home tons of colds and flues from school, I didn’t catch them, ever. I spent the first 32 years of my life incredibly healthy and energetic. I was raising my 6 children preparing […]
Hi, I’m Erika! I am a successful Interior Decorator and business owner. I am a single mom of 2 active teenagers. When I was a teenager I would ride my bike everywhere. I had chronic pain in my knee. As I matured, my knee hurt and crunched when I went upstairs. My neck and back
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by Elaine Waksman A beautiful story unfolded one Summer day in July. A neighbor I know who climbs mountains by day was training on Bear Mountain in Upstate NY. A Man in his 50’s approached him with curiosity inquiring what he was wearing on his back. “A JBIT MedPro? What’s that?” he asked. “It’s a
When you are a strong, healthy, vibrant, successful, independent woman, and you learn you have Multiple Sclerosis, you can choose to allow MS to get the better of you, or you can continue to be a strong, healthy, vibrant, successful, independent woman that just has MS. Listen to see which path Michelle has decided to
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This last week has been just a whirlwind of stuff going on for me. My daughter started Kindergarten, I am doing an huge Impact study for a non-profit organization and I have officially signed up to be a Medpro Affiliate. I have such great people in my corner cheering me on! Right now I am
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Where do I begin? Back on January 15, 1993 while working at Matrix Marketing, Inc., I had come back from a meeting to my desk and the next thing I remember is waking up on the floor with people around me including the paramedics asking if I remembered my name, which I eventually did. This
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I’ve been sick as long as I can remember. As a child it was constant nosebleeds, gut problems, rashes when I went out in the sun. Those things have continued throughout my life, but at times I’ve had other symptoms: hair falling out at one time, random aches and pains absolutely everywhere down to the
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It Made Me a Better Mother We all know that dishes and dust bunnies and laundry, laundry, laundry will always reaccumulate. I wonder now, why I was so afraid to unclench my grip from the chores and daily tedium of life? Why did it take such a major event to wake up and cherish these
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To see the graphic that I have attached to this post, and to read the words of a dear friend, as a response to the graphic, really helped look at my own chronic pain issues. Although I will never understand the pain that is associated with Gout, I do understand the pain associated with a
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One morning last spring, as the sun peeked over the trees, I settled into a chair on the porch, a steaming mug of coffee cradled in my hand. About five minutes later, my life changed. This onset of symptoms came gradually, the tingling spreading from my toes into my feet. This new symptom had to
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