Hello friends --BOTH GIRLS ARE HOME FROM COLLEGE!!   🎶Happy Days Are Here Again🎶   The house is filled with noise - and motion - and laughter - and inappropriate comments - and side eyes - and music - and never enough food - and kid shit everywhere - and this mama's heart is HAPPY!!!  ❤️  🥳How are YOU??  I'd love an update - it's been a minute.  Just hit "reply" and tell me what's going on with you in your life - and if there's anything I could help you with.  Love to hear from you.Okey dokey - let's get on with it, shall we??1.  WOW - that's all I have to say about this book by an author who not only has MS herself - but gave her main character MS!!  I'll admit - I get a TON of books and manuscripts, etc., sent to me to review so I wasn't expecting much when I opened this one up but boy was I wrong.  I thoroughly enjoyed this book.  Great storyline, very authentic portrayal of life with MS and - BONUS -  I called it 50 Shade of MS for a reason!!!  😉  Here's a link to the podcast interview of author Delaney Parker  and here's where to get YOUR copy:  GRACE2.  In a study that surprised literally no one in the MS world, researchers found that many people newly diagnosed with RRMS experience substantial “hidden disabilities,” such as depression or fatigue. Shocking!!  Hidden Disabilities3.  Taking Copaxone (glatiramer acetate), an approved therapy for relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis (MS), while breastfeeding does not appear to be harmful to infants during their first 18 months, according to a real-life study in Germany called COBRA. (As opposed to the fake shit we do over here. Just kidding. Couldn't resist).  Copaxone is Your Breast Friend4.  Hey Rituximabers - check this out:  With Rituximab, B-cell Counts Predict COVID-19 Vaccine Response5.  And, in another twist, here's one more study whose outcome no one (read: everyone with MS) could have predicted:  Disease Severity, Brain Changes Linked To Cognitive Decline6.  Is there a link between B-cell-depleting therapies, including Rituximab and Ocrevus, and an increased risk of psoriasis??  Maybe - that's why they're doing a study on it!!  B-cell-depleting Therapies May Increase Risk of PsoriasisLet's all folks.   Other than to remind you that Patients Getting Paid is my membership community with trainings and workshops, accountability days, twice monthly member's only LIVE coaching calls, coworkings, weekly updated paid gig listings, brainstorming sessions and an incredible community of people - all with chronic illness - looking to find and/or create flexible, remote work that both accommodates their health and generates an income. Interested in becoming a chronicpreneur but not sure where to even start?  I got you!!   Learn more - and join us - at Patients Getting Paid.Drop me an email and let me know at [email protected] or meet me over in the FUMS Facebook community and let's chat!  Thanks.Warmly -- Kathy#FUMS

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