Come Together
If you’ve read this blog for very long, or ever checked out my about page, you know I have Multiple Sclerosis.
What you might not know is that I was diagnosed while training to participate in a bike ride to raise funds for someone that I know with MS. Talk about ironic!
Because of my amazing medical team and radical diet and lifestyle changes, I am healthy 5 years after my diagnosis. I haven’t had a relapse in more than three years, and aside from some fleeting symptoms, I hardly know I have the disease.
Even more amazing, I have a lesion on my spinal cord that is shrinking. Yep, I’m reversing MS!
Unfortunately, that is not the case for everyone with MS and people are newly diagnosed every day. I can’t explain the fear that comes with a diagnosis of a potentially progressively, debilitating disease, but I will say that its bad, really bad.
The Multiple Sclerosis Society is one of the first places that I turned to with my family to learn more and fear less. I will always support their good work.
My beautiful sister-in-law went into action the year I was diagnosed, and started a bike team, Team TLC (Team who Loves Courtney). They’ve ridden hundred of miles and raised thousands of dollars for the Multiple Sclerosis Society over the past 5 years.
I joined them in 2008 on Martha’s Vineyard for a 100km ride, and remember crying as I crossed the finish line. I had finally finished a ride that I was training for since before my diagnosis. I crossed it with my husband and our friends and family, with tears running down my face, wobbly legs, a sore back and a swelling heart. It will go down in history as one of my most joyous moments.
This year, Team TLC is riding the NH seacoast in August, and I’d like to ask you to support them. Mark, my husband and Anne, my sister in law are co-captains this year, and will be leading the team in a 100km ride. You can join the team or donate to their fundraising efforts. I am going to do my best to be there to support the team and other riders, and if you are nearby, I’d love to meet you.
I’m sure you’ve heard it before, but no donation is too small. It’s the truth! Thousands of you read this blog in the privacy of your own homes and coffee shops around the world, but please, for this, come together and fight MS with me and Team TLC.
MS research and support gives me hope that I will have a sharp mind and strong body, so I can continue to learn and grow with you, and that fewer people will ever have to hear, “You have MS”.
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I love to ride and wish I could participate in this ride. Can’t quite figure out how to get from the Jersey Shore to the NH shore. I will definitely support TLC’s fundraising effort. Thrilled to hear you have been able to reverse MS. Wondering what in particular you have done. Certainly gives lots of people hope and I wish you the best.
Hi Patricia,
I cut most animal products from my diet including all meat and cut way back on dairy. I don’t drink milk at all. Simplifying my life reduced so much stress which is a big factor. I also have a monthly infusion. Those things combined with amazing support from family and friends, including you and awesome readers have given me back my health.
This is fantastic. I admire you.
My husband have MS, progressive. I just wanted to ask you if you have wrote some articles about your diet? Or about how you did to superate MS.
Sometimes I wanted to tell my husband to try something, an exersise, or simply comming with me at the gym and do bicicle. But he does not wanted to try nothing.
Thanks for share your experience.
Lydia, Depression is often a symptom of MS. Perhaps that could be affecting your husband. I would recommend visiting his neurologist with him and talking about some of your concerns. Keep supporting him and helping him to fight.
Your story is amazing! Thank you for all you do. I’ve supported what I could spare. Good luck!
You rock Lynn! Thank you for your support today and everyday.
I am amazed that you have MS and can still do all that you do.
I love your blog and am so happy to hear what a difference your diet and lifestyle is making. I’m going to check out the links and support and donate to give some love. Thanks for sharing this! :~)
We share a diagnosis, as you know, Courtney. Although we have never met in person..I feel somehow connected to you in more ways than you will know. Your blog has made such a difference in my life in terms of simplification of my life.
Although I have opted to NOT avail myself of the standard MS protocol treatments…I have changed my diet markedly (no more milk…very little dairy and less and less meat of any type). Hmmm…could Diet Coke with fresh lemon be the next victim of my “more-healthy” lifestyle?
Keep fighting the good fight, Courtney…and you will continue to inspire us all with your strength!
Hi Courtney -
I am so delighted and grateful that I found you today on twitter! I’m sitting on Martha’s Vineyard, listening to birds singing, and reading your blog, including your story of the 100K (wow) race up here. Many thanks for helping me begin my day so beautifully.
All the best – Priscilla
I follow your blog for a while now and I like it. Cool stuff!
I didn’t know you have MS and just wanted to make you aware of Dr Robert Morse’s youtube channel. He cured a lot if not all MS cases he had. This is no joke or something. Check him out, give him a call or even make an appointment. I am sure he can help you big time. He is the man that can and will improve your life.
Good luck and have a great day
Ursula
http://www.komonews.com/home/video/106175483.html?tab=video
Wow………this video is 20 or 30 minutes but it’s done in San Diego and insurance will probably pay. It’s not to treat MS, it’s to treat clogged veins.
Dr. Hubbard’s theory of MS by CCSVI in Multiple Sclerosis
Posted by Ken Torbert on May 22, 2011 at 10:48am
Dr. David Hubbard is a neurologist and founder of the Hubbard fMRI Institute and the Hubbard Foundation. He, and Dr. Jack Burks, were the only neurologists present at the recent CCSVI conference, although many neurologists were invited to attend. This was disappointing, to say the least. One would assume that neurologists would be interested in new research into the blood brain barrier and MS.
The first thing to note is that the current autoimmune theory of MS is still only a THEORY. There is absolutely no proof that rogue t-cells are what cause MS. This is an hypothesis.