{"id":2042,"date":"2026-05-19T14:00:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T14:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/my-life-with-ms-is-measured-by-time-spent-in-an-mri-tube\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T14:00:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T14:00:45","slug":"my-life-with-ms-is-measured-by-time-spent-in-an-mri-tube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/my-life-with-ms-is-measured-by-time-spent-in-an-mri-tube\/","title":{"rendered":"My life with MS is measured by time spent in an MRI tube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/news-posts\/2026\/05\/19\/life-ms-measured-time-spent-mri-tube\/\" title=\"My life with MS is measured by time spent in an MRI tube\" 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>By now, I\u2019ve spent at least 70 hours inside an MRI machine. That\u2019s three days of my life spent lying perfectly still while magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) searched my brain, spine, and joints for answers related to my multiple sclerosis (MS). At 16, the experience felt terrifying. I\u2019m not claustrophobic, but being in such a [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/news-posts\/2026\/05\/19\/life-ms-measured-time-spent-mri-tube\/\">My life with MS is measured by time spent in an MRI tube<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\">Multiple Sclerosis News Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/news-posts\/2026\/05\/19\/life-ms-measured-time-spent-mri-tube\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now, I\u2019ve spent at least 70 hours inside an MRI machine. That\u2019s three days of my life spent lying perfectly still while magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) searched my brain, spine, and joints for answers related to my multiple sclerosis (MS). At 16, the experience&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2043,"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-2042","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\/2042","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=2042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}