{"id":1769,"date":"2026-04-07T14:00:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/how-my-perspective-on-ms-awareness-has-shifted-since-my-diagnosis\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T14:00:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:00:53","slug":"how-my-perspective-on-ms-awareness-has-shifted-since-my-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/how-my-perspective-on-ms-awareness-has-shifted-since-my-diagnosis\/","title":{"rendered":"How my perspective on MS awareness has shifted since my diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/columns\/2026\/04\/07\/how-perspective-ms-awareness-shifted-diagnosis\/\" title=\"How my perspective on MS awareness has shifted since my diagnosis\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_1375-800x300.png\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"Main graphic for Ahna Crum&#039;s column, &quot;Balancing Grit and Grace&quot;\" style=\"margin: auto;margin-bottom: 15px;max-width: 100%\" data-wp-pid=\"138157\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Until my relapse last summer, multiple sclerosis (MS) hadn&#8217;t really affected my daily life in nine years, so the recent MS Awareness Month made me pause. Living with the disease sometimes at the forefront and sometimes in the background has shown me how much the meaning of &#8220;awareness&#8221; can change. When I was diagnosed with [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/columns\/2026\/04\/07\/how-perspective-ms-awareness-shifted-diagnosis\/\">How my perspective on MS awareness has shifted since my diagnosis<\/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\/2026\/04\/07\/how-perspective-ms-awareness-shifted-diagnosis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until my relapse last summer, multiple sclerosis (MS) hadn&#8217;t really affected my daily life in nine years, so the recent MS Awareness Month made me pause. Living with the disease sometimes at the forefront and sometimes in the background has shown me how much the meaning of &#8220;awareness&#8221; can change. When I was diagnosed with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1770,"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-1769","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\/1769","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=1769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}