Multiple Sclerosis: Tips and Strategies for Making Life Easier

By Shelley Peterman Schwarz

Book Overview

An MS diagnosis presents many unanswered questions: How is this diagnosis going to change my life? Where do I begin? How will I manage to take care of my family, work, and travel? No one knows the answers to these questions better than Shelley Peterman Schwarz, who has lived nearly forty years with multiple sclerosis. Schwarz imbues her updated collection of practical tips and short cuts with personal stories that highlight her trials and triumphs. Shelley shares her real-life experiences as a wife, mother, friend, and employee/employer coping, managing, and growing with MS with a humorous warmth and unflinching honesty.

This extensively revised and updated third edition is packed with helpful information and now includes over 800 tips and new solutions and strategies for confronting the challenges of living a full life with a debilitating chronic illness. With Shelley's guidance, readers will learn to conserve valuable time and energy, develop techniques for making everyday tasks easier, manage symptoms, maintain positive relationships, stay motivated, and bounce back when MS knocks you down.

Expanded chapters cover medical issues, home safety and accessibility, dressing and looking your best, and travel. NEW sections include:

A Thriver's Guide Taking Charge-Mentally and Physically Family and Friends Marriage Sexual Compatibility and Intimacy Being a Parent Driving and Disability Working Finding Help and Support

With hundreds of new tips and tools, and practical wisdom for meeting challenges large and small, this book continues to inform, encourage, validate, and empower individuals and families living with multiple sclerosis.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826156339
• ISBN13: 9780826156334
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Demos Medical Publishing
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

many useful tips

Many useful tips. Some of them are gender specific (female) which limited the utility for me.

Practical and helpful

Out of the many books I've read regarding MS, this, by far, has proven to be the most helpful. Whether they are things found around the house or to-order, this book provides a wonderful wealth of resources to aid in living with not only MS but other conditions as well. The extensiveness of addressing all the facets of coping daily is great. Whether it's personal care, traveling, getting dressed or simply opening a door, the tips are extremely helpful, affordable and achievable.