📗 You Just Might Find, You Get What You Need: How MS Became My Unlikely Success Story
summary
Rapidly diagnosed with MS after five MRIs and two spinal taps and a five‑day hospital stay, the story shows concrete pivots: three months on FMLA, trading apartment work for Techlahoma community management, learning the difference between Java and JavaScript, becoming executive director, then later applying for disability. Practical tactics include using a scooter to keep traveling, quitting a job to rebuild, running a three‑episode podcast that stops, and using pre‑mortem planning, deliberate saying no and prioritizing self‑care over aftercare; internet‑sourced claims about smiling releasing endorphins are offered as a coping tool.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Introduction and disclaimers
- 1:46What is an invisible illness
- 2:50First symptoms and ER visits
- 4:38MS diagnosis and hospital stay
- 6:23Life after diagnosis
- 8:28Career change and new path
- 10:16Finding Techlahoma and community
- 11:18Applying for disability
- 12:23Learning to say no and self-care
- 14:52Self-care vs aftercare
- 15:53Disability community and identity
- 16:54Personal goals and evolving dreams
- 18:20Embracing change and growth
- 19:23Pre-mortem thinking and joy
- 21:30Comparison and social media
- 23:16Progress is flexible
- 23:57Affirmations and closing
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