{"id":268,"date":"2025-07-18T19:42:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T19:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/07\/18\/defying-ms-odds-with-help-from-barenaked-ladies\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T19:42:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T19:42:23","slug":"defying-ms-odds-with-help-from-barenaked-ladies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/07\/18\/defying-ms-odds-with-help-from-barenaked-ladies\/","title":{"rendered":"Defying MS odds with help from Barenaked Ladies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\"><em>&#8220;We have no choice in how MS will affect our lives, but we do have the ability to stay in the game and play the cards we are dealt. Sure, this can involve some bluffing and making it look easier than it really is, but it&#8217;s important to continue showing up and playing each day as though the odds will work in our favor.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\u2013 Dan Digmann<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">You\u2019ve probably seen my smile, heard my optimism, and thought, \u201cDan is handling his MS so well.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msfocusmagazine.org\/Magazine\/Magazine-Items\/Exclusive-Content\/2025\/The-Barenaked-realities-behind-my-MS-optimism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"856\" height=\"639\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acoupletakesonms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/C7E9C183-D80D-4A91-82E9-F46668BB51B2-2.jpg?resize=856%2C639&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11100\" style=\"width:582px;height:auto\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Click image (which we took when we saw Barenaked Ladies at Soaring Eagle Casino last November) to read my <em>MS Focus Magazine<\/em> essay &#8220;The Barenaked Realities behind my MS optimism.&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"\">But here\u2019s the truth: my optimism is something I have to work at every day\u2014and it\u2019s rooted in some very real, very raw experiences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In my recent essay for\u00a0<em>MS Focus Magazine<\/em> \u2013 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msfocusmagazine.org\/Magazine\/Magazine-Items\/Exclusive-Content\/2025\/The-Barenaked-realities-behind-my-MS-optimism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Barenaked realities behind my MS optimism<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 I pull back the curtain and share a slice of the story behind the attitude.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">And yes, a&nbsp;<em>Barenaked Ladies<\/em>&nbsp;song plays a starring role.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><em>\u201cOdds Are\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;has quickly become more than just a catchy chorus for me in my life with this chronic progressive disease. It\u2019s a reminder that the odds are in our favor more often than we think.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">That message fuels my hope, even on the hard days<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">I encourage you to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msfocusmagazine.org\/Magazine\/Magazine-Items\/Exclusive-Content\/2025\/The-Barenaked-realities-behind-my-MS-optimism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">check out this piece<\/a><\/strong> and see why optimism doesn\u2019t always mean everything is OK\u2014it just means we\u2019re choosing to keep going anyway.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/acoupletakesonms.com\/defying-ms-odd-with-help-from-barenaked-ladies\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=defying-ms-odd-with-help-from-barenaked-ladies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">acoupletakesonms.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We have no choice in how MS will affect our lives, but we do have the ability to stay in the game and play the cards we are dealt. Sure, this can involve some bluffing and making it look easier than it really is, but it&#8217;s important to continue showing up and playing each day&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":269,"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-268","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\/268","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=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}