{"id":709,"date":"2025-10-25T15:14:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T15:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/10\/25\/ms-is-out-of-sight-but-still-on-my-mind\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T15:14:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T15:14:16","slug":"ms-is-out-of-sight-but-still-on-my-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/10\/25\/ms-is-out-of-sight-but-still-on-my-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"MS is out of sight but still on my mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">I\u2019ve realized after 25+ years living with Multiple Sclerosis that some of the hardest battles are the ones no one sees. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msfocusmagazine.org\/Magazine\/Magazine-Items\/Exclusive-Content\/2025\/Visible-versus-invisible-MS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"640\" height=\"457\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acoupletakesonms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_3355.jpg?resize=640%2C457&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11205\" style=\"width:581px;height:auto\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">With Jennifer at a game this summer to cheer on our beloved Great Lakes Loons. Click the pic to check out my recent MS Focus essay to see which of my invisible MS life hacks you missed in this image.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"\">And Jennifer and I both understand the challenges of managing the invisible symptoms of MS: fatigue, numbness, balance problems, emotional burden, and everything in between.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In my current MS Focus Magazine essay for the Multiple Sclerosis Foundation \u2014 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msfocusmagazine.org\/Magazine\/Magazine-Items\/Exclusive-Content\/2025\/Visible-versus-invisible-MS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Visible versus invisible MS<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 I share a candid look into what it means to walk that fine line between being seen and staying hidden.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Imagine that. Walking a fine line while living with MS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Get an inside look at how I\u2019ve hidden symptoms, invented workarounds, and carried guilt and fear around what would happen if others really knew. And it all centers around five of my \u201clife hacks\u201d for staying visible \u2014 not as MS, but as me.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/acoupletakesonms.com\/ms-is-out-of-sight-but-still-on-my-mind\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=ms-is-out-of-sight-but-still-on-my-mind\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">acoupletakesonms.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve realized after 25+ years living with Multiple Sclerosis that some of the hardest battles are the ones no one sees. With Jennifer at a game this summer to cheer on our beloved Great Lakes Loons. Click the pic to check out my recent MS Focus essay to see which of my invisible MS life&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":710,"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-709","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\/709","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=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}