By Mark Davis Pickup She gazed out the kitchen window, not looking at anything in particular. My wife LaRee was contemplating. “I wonder if we’ll… Read More »What 37 Years with MS Taught Me About Living with COVID
By Mark Davis Pickup Being one of the vulnerable populations at particular risk of COVID-19 (multiple sclerosis & hypertension), I haven’t attended church in months!… Read More »Nothing Can Separate Us from the Love of God
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2016 was the year Canada legalized medical killing which we euphemistically call “medical assistance in dying” (MAID)—previously known as physician assisted suicide.
By Mark Davis Pickup
There was a change in how I viewed being chronically ill for more than three decades.
By Mark Davis Pickup
The onset of multiple sclerosis is sudden. I went dead from the waist down. I could not distinguish something hot from something cold.
By Mark Davis Pickup
I encountered a young man who is confronted with newly acquired and profound physical disability.
By Mark Davis Pickup
This past weekend I met four other people with multiple sclerosis. It was not by design. I met them at events that had nothing to do with MS or disability.