{"id":872,"date":"2025-11-26T15:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T15:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/11\/26\/with-ms-holiday-prepping-is-about-shifting-the-bar-not-lowering-it\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T15:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T15:00:14","slug":"with-ms-holiday-prepping-is-about-shifting-the-bar-not-lowering-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/11\/26\/with-ms-holiday-prepping-is-about-shifting-the-bar-not-lowering-it\/","title":{"rendered":"With MS, holiday prepping is about shifting the bar, not lowering it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/columns\/2025\/11\/26\/preparing-holidays-ms-shifting-bar-not-lowering\/\" title=\"With MS, holiday prepping is about shifting the bar, not lowering it\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_1374-800x300.png\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"Main banner for Desiree Lama&#039;s column, &quot;Authentically Human.&quot;\" style=\"margin: auto;margin-bottom: 15px;max-width: 100%\" data-wp-pid=\"138158\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The holidays tend to arrive with a mix of excitement and stress, even for people without a chronic illness. But for those of us living with multiple sclerosis (MS), the season can feel like its own kind of marathon, full of expectations, overscheduling, symptoms that flare when we least want them to, and the pressure [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/columns\/2025\/11\/26\/preparing-holidays-ms-shifting-bar-not-lowering\/\">With MS, holiday prepping is about shifting the bar, not lowering it<\/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\/2025\/11\/26\/preparing-holidays-ms-shifting-bar-not-lowering\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The holidays tend to arrive with a mix of excitement and stress, even for people without a chronic illness. But for those of us living with multiple sclerosis (MS), the season can feel like its own kind of marathon, full of expectations, overscheduling, symptoms that flare when we least want them to, and the pressure&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":873,"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-872","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\/872","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=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}