If you don’t know who the Wheelchair Kamikaze is, you should. He is Marc Stecker, one very funny and determined character who writes one hell of a high-quality blog on living with MS. He’ll be one of the featured guests in my upcoming interview series MS Voices, and as such I wanted to introduce you to him. Here’s one of his videos, which will give you a little taste of Marc’s endearing personality and the various booties of NYC. It was laugh-out-loud funny for me, and I hope you enjoy it too. After that,...
Read more »

A couple days ago I ran into an acquaintance at the pool club. Her name is Rebecca and her daughter Carly was in the same group as my daughter in camp last summer. One day when we were waiting for our kids to get out of camp, she told me about Carly’s chronic Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs) and how Carly’s doctor had prescribed antibiotics indefinitely to treat it, and said that if this course of action didn’t work, the next step would be to operate. As a result of the long-term use of antibiotics,...
Read more »

A couple nights ago, after weeping ceaselessly for many hours, I called my very dear and wonderful friend Kiela. When she answered the phone, I half-cried the word “hi” and continued weeping. We sat silently on the phone like this for some time. Then she said, “I think I like you better this way.” Perhaps you think this is an odd and offensive thing for one friend to say to another in such a moment. But I knew exactly what she meant, and I agreed. Here’s the thing – it isn’t possible to look...
Read more »