The MS diaries

My unexpected journey began when I collapsed at Macy’s in San Francisco to the sound of Christmas carols and bells ringing. A few days later, a pale man handed me a beige folder with a dark diagnosis that would come to dominate the rest of my life: Multiple Sclerosis, or MS. Despite living in a rapidly deteriorating body, I managed to get stuck at the top of Mt. Fuji, fall on my face in the Galapagos Islands, get married, move to Stockholm, and have a daughter. All while going from running, to walking, to stumbling, to riding a wheelchair.

 

The MS Diaries is a deeply personal account of my struggles with the disease. My MS set off a tsunami inside of me that ravaged my body and crushed my lungs. I lived through twenty bouts of pneumonia, three years with a respirator, a year without eating, and a thirty-day coma.

 

This, my bumpy ride, has made me appreciate life all the more – the importance of feeling, smiling, and loving – to lead with kindness and to make space for spirituality. 

You are welcome to read The MS Diaries below for free. It is also available in e-book, audiobook, and print format at Amazon.

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B. Matija Peterlin
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful book, a testament to persistence and personal fortitude
Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2021
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic and captivating read
Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2021
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I started this book, tried to put it down to go to sleep, but ended up getting back up to keep reading. It is sad, funny, informative, and most of all, a beautiful example of a deeply human experience. Although all of our circumstances are different, the author writes in a way that invites the reader to join what is, after all, the shared human experience of life unexpected. Exceptionally written and deeply interesting throughout, this book has kept me thinking about it as I go through my day, and I am grateful to the writer for encouraging those thoughts. I highly recommend this book.

I wanted a life different than others and this I got. I can’t say for sure what I expected, but it surely wasn’t this. What I got was a life hijacked by a disease that turned my body into a stranger. Lost in the fog of my disease — I clung to sanity with my bare fingernails — trying to make sense of a senseless situation.

 

 

The audiobook is beautifully narrated by Adrian M. Lopez.