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How to stay in touch when MS flares up


         Exacerbations can leave MSer's feeling stuck in a hard place.
                                       Photo: Pamela Yelinek
 

It happens. Even when all the best practices have been championed and MSer’s are unswervingly compliant with their therapy. Multiple Sclerosis can still ambush lives and throw folks off the edge of the precipice into the rocky canyon below leaving them, and their care partners, feeling like they’ve landed between a big rock and an even harder place. Navigating their way out can take time, often isolating them from those who care.

Naturally concerned friends and family wish to stay informed. They want to know how they can help and they want the MSer, and care partner, to know they’re mindful of them. For the folks in the midst of the rocky canyon though, finding the time and strength to keep everyone informed can seem like an insurmountable task. Happily, it doesn’t need to be.

Enter the easy to navigate CaringBridge website. CaringBridge provides a practical tool that allows patients, care partners, family and friends a safe and effective method to disseminate information. Respectful of privacy and delightful to use, each individual’s site is completely personalized by them and their visitors. Tell your story, include photos, update the journal, sign the guestbook, and even make a tribute by donating to CaringBridge so their important service is available to everyone.


    Banner courtesy of CaringBridge.org

No MSer wants to endure another flare-up or progressive worsening of symptoms, but if it does happen, they have a fitting way to allow their loves ones to travel the road with them.

CaringBridge is a charitable nonprofit organization providing free websites that connect family and friends to share information, love and support during a serious health event, care and recovery. Its mission is to bring together a global community of care, powered by the love of family and friends, in an easy, accessible and private way. CaringBridge saves time and energy by centralizing communication and easing the burden of updating everyone during a health event. Each CaringBridge website is unique - authors select their website design and add journal entries and photos to share their story while visitors leave messages in the guestbook, creating a network of support for the patient.”
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As an MS Advocate Speaker and patient mentor since her 2001 diagnoses of RRMS, Pamela endeavors to empower people to live every moment as wisely...

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