Living Well with Multiple Sclerosis

Living Well with Multiple Sclerosis is one part primer, one part handbook, one part pocket translator, and 100% an essential field guide for navigating the challenges of living with chronic illness. This curated collection from nearly two decades of reflections by award-winning writer, Trevis L Gleason, compiled and edited with his “MS Sister,” Emma Rogan, guides readers through ever-changing personal, professional, and medical minefields associated with life-altering chronic conditions. Refreshingly honest, but written with hope, compassion, and Gleason’s signature wry wit, it reinforces Gleason’s MS ethos that “Living life with a chronic illness well is all about the living part.”

Review
“Delightful, funny, insightful, poignant, and compelling. Living Well with Multiple Sclerosis should be mandatory reading for every patient dealing with any chronic health condition and for the doctors treating them.”-Dr Michelle Toshima, PhD – The Multiple Sclerosis Center

at Swedish Neuroscience Institute

”An open, honest, and real account of life with multiple sclerosis. It’s confronting, uplifting, challenging, emotional and all things in between. A great read.” -Trishna Bharadia – MS patient advocate MS Society UK

“Humorous, self-deprecating, pragmatic, and enlightened, Trevis provides a must-read account of playing the hand that MS has dealt him the best he can.” -Ava Battles – Chief Executive Officer, Multiple Sclerosis Society of Ireland
”Trevis paints a picture that gives readers an inside look at what it’s like to live and thrive with MS.”-Dr. Pamela Valentine – President & Chief Executive Officer, MS Society of Canada

“A vivid diary of a personal journey through multiple sclerosis. While every journey is different, Trevis has managed to bring us into the shared experience of people with chronic illness.”-Dr Paola Zaratan P.hD – Director of Scientific Research. Italian Multiple Sclerosis Society

About the Author
Chef by training, Food Scientist by education, Writer by passion, and Advocate for people with disabilities… by necessity. A former US Coast Guard navigator, USAID ambassador, and culinary instructor, Gleason serves on the Editorial Board for MS Ireland, and as Cathaoirleach of Corca Dhuibhne Food Network. Along with his previously published books, he has written pieces for most major newspapers in Ireland as well as a number of food magazines, professional journals (including New England Journal of Medicine and Lancet Neurology), and academic papers. His blogs, Trevis L Gleason’s Life with Multiple Sclerosis, are the longest-running posted MS works on the web. He lives between Seattle, Washington USA and West Kerry Ireland with his wife, Caryn and their Wheaten Terrier, Maggie

Relevance:
Gait impairment in multiple sclerosis
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