{"id":1960,"date":"2026-05-07T14:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/life-with-ms-is-hard-but-you-dont-have-to-figure-it-out-on-your-own\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T14:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:00:12","slug":"life-with-ms-is-hard-but-you-dont-have-to-figure-it-out-on-your-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/life-with-ms-is-hard-but-you-dont-have-to-figure-it-out-on-your-own\/","title":{"rendered":"Life with MS is hard, but you don\u2019t have to figure it out on your own"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/columns\/chairborne-a-column-by-ben-hofmeister\/2026\/05\/08\/life-ms-hard-you-dont-have-figure-out-your-own\/\" title=\"Life with MS is hard, but you don&#8217;t have to figure it out on your own\" 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>Between my tours with the Army, a new course was added to the curriculum for me to teach \u2014 a two-week basic combat skills course for support personnel. The logic was that if a mechanic or cook attached to a special forces team overseas ever had to do something outside of his or her skill [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/columns\/chairborne-a-column-by-ben-hofmeister\/2026\/05\/08\/life-ms-hard-you-dont-have-figure-out-your-own\/\">Life with MS is hard, but you don&#8217;t have to figure it out on your own<\/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\/chairborne-a-column-by-ben-hofmeister\/2026\/05\/08\/life-ms-hard-you-dont-have-figure-out-your-own\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between my tours with the Army, a new course was added to the curriculum for me to teach \u2014 a two-week basic combat skills course for support personnel. The logic was that if a mechanic or cook attached to a special forces team overseas ever had to do something outside of his or her skill&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1961,"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-1960","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\/1960","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=1960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}