My journey volunteering and travelling with MS

If you have read my About me page, you have a pretty good idea as to how I started on my journey volunteering and travelling with MS! Before I get into it, I have to share how thankful I am for your kind messages and continued support across my social channels in these unprecedented times! I know it’s an awkward time to start following a travel blogger! I hope you and yours are keeping well.

With the recent growth in the audience for The Travelling MS, it seemed like a good time to use an additional platform to connect with you all–a video series! I sincerely hope that these videos will give you a bit more insight as to what I’ve been up to (besides staying indoors, of course!), my experiences with Multiple Sclerosis and future travel plans.

Throughout my journey volunteering and travelling with MS, I’m often asked: can you live well with MS?

If you haven’t heard it before, allow me to be the first to share that MS is complicated. Its behaviour and rate of progression are somewhat unpredictable. Sure, some of us know that extreme temperatures and overdoing it at exercise can exacerbate our symptoms but I can’t fully control the formation of new lesions on my brain–even on medication and doing my best to follow my medical team’s advice.

Still, my natural response is to say yes, a thousand times yes, you CAN live well with MS. Naturally, we all have a different relationship with our MS; it’s difficult to watch your body change and do things you never thought possible. How this is processed is very much up to the person experiencing it and the help of a support team.

MS causes a wide range of symptoms. For some, symptoms like blurred vision, fatigue, muscle weakness, brain fog and slurred speech appear and eventually partially or fully leave. However, there are also MSers who face frequent hospitalisation, limited mobility, incontinence and painful muscle spasms. Life with MS and one’s outlook on it are as different as our respective symptoms. It’s possible to live well with MS but what that means and what it looks like will vary from person to person.

I hope that this video and future videos will give you insight into my approach to navigating life with MS

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Without further ado…

Hope you enjoyed the video as much I enjoyed making it for you! This will be the first of many. Remember to subscribe to stay in the loop and you can also follow me using the social links below. Let’s stay connected!

Take care of yourself,

B the Travelling MS xx