Friends, “Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half sorrow.” – Swedish proverb If you haven’t noticed yet, there’s a new white board up on the wall in the gym. The purpose of this new white board is for us to post our health concerns as well as victories, times when we…
Friends, Thank you for joining us! For those of you who aren’t able to make it by us, please know I’m looking at your picture on our wall and missing you quite often. This goes for our friends with MS and our volunteers that aren’t able to make it. As we train for our…
Friends, MS is challenging isn’t it? Many of us eventually get challenged with the transition of being able to continue working or not. This challenge of acceptance could be one of the hardest life changing challenges we face. What’s next? What help is available? Although we may not have the answers to this as…
Friends, The MS Bike ride is coming up fast. August 3rd and 4th is going to be here before we know it. If you have MS and are already signed up, you should have received your “I Ride with MS” jersey in the mail. Aren’t they nice? The “I Ride with MS” jersey program that the…
Friends, My heart continues to go out to all of you who would love to join us but can’t. I don’t want to mention names for fear of forgetting someone. As we all know, MS can be devastating and we need to keep learning more about it. If you can’t make it by us,…
Friends, Kathleen sent a nice e-mail about the daisies she grew from the gym didn’t she? As a response to that, Jeanne sent me an e-mail reflecting on how these daisies can be compared to MS and offered to help people share this experience if interested. Here’s a message from Jeanne: Being a “retired”…
Friends, We had awesome visitors last week didn’t we? We sure love to share! Linda and Wendy were so nice to bring this horse out to share it’s comforting love with all of us. Thank you Linda and Wendy! The horse certainly shared it’s love with us. As always, Donna was sharing her love.…
Friends, Alison and Lauren did another amazing presentation on nutrition again last Friday didn’t they? I love the questions that get asked and get answered. It’s good to see so many engaging and actually put some of the information into practice and making improvements. For those who are making improvements, thanks for sharing your…
Friends, Many of us go through some really tough times with MS. Wendy is going through some tough times and wants everyone to know she misses all of us and definitely believes in the power of prayer. Please keep Wendy in your prayers. She’s in the hospital right now and making some progress. Hopefully…
Friends, Linda is trying to make it possible for some horses to come to our group. Wouldn’t that be fun? They were planning on coming this week but will be postponed. Here’s a message from Linda: “Regrettably, Wendy from Horse Power Healing Center won’t be able to bring her horse guests to the gym…