{"id":1057,"date":"2025-12-18T15:00:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/12\/18\/planning-for-life-with-ms-means-being-willing-to-adapt\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T15:00:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:00:21","slug":"planning-for-life-with-ms-means-being-willing-to-adapt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/12\/18\/planning-for-life-with-ms-means-being-willing-to-adapt\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning for life with MS means being willing to adapt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/columns\/2025\/12\/18\/planning-life-ms-means-being-willing-adapt\/\" title=\"Planning for life with MS means being willing to adapt\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Image-from-iOS-5-800x300.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"This banner image for Ben Hofmeister&#039;s column &quot;Chairborne&quot; features a wheelchair at left and a beach scene at right.\" style=\"margin: auto;margin-bottom: 15px;max-width: 100%\" data-wp-pid=\"109440\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I checked into the hospital last month, I answered all the usual diagnostic questions, but then one caught me off guard. A social worker asked if I had an advance directive in place. My first thought was to wonder just how bad the lab results were since I hadn&#8217;t seen them yet, but I [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/columns\/2025\/12\/18\/planning-life-ms-means-being-willing-adapt\/\">Planning for life with MS means being willing to adapt<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\">Multiple Sclerosis News Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/columns\/2025\/12\/18\/planning-life-ms-means-being-willing-adapt\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I checked into the hospital last month, I answered all the usual diagnostic questions, but then one caught me off guard. A social worker asked if I had an advance directive in place. My first thought was to wonder just how bad the lab results were since I hadn&#8217;t seen them yet, but I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11,15,9,8,13,14,12,10],"class_list":["post-1057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multiple-sclerosis-research","tag-brain-repair","tag-marburg-type-ms","tag-ms","tag-multiple-sclerosis","tag-myelin","tag-neuroregeneration","tag-oligodendrocyte","tag-remyelination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}