With MS, an Empty Inbox Leaves Me Feeling Unneeded

Even though I’ve lived with the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) for more than 16 years, there are things I experience now and again that are identical to things that happened in those first few months after MS came into my life. One of the most devastating experiences I had relative to MS in the beginning was the sense of a lack of connection to the world around me. From Hyperconnected to Unconnected For a number of years, I’d been working at a job that had me flying from city to city day after day, week after week, often for weeks on end without going home between stops. I had important contacts to maintain in 10 different time zones, so it seemed I was always on the phone or exchanging emails with someone. I was always connected to someone, somewhere. Then after I lost my job — which was before the days of social media and the eventual inception of the Life With Multiple Sclerosis blog — there was nothingness. The phone didn’t ring, nothing came out of the fax machine (this was a while ago now), and the email inbox remained empty. For the person I was then — a man who identified himself as his job — this was a huge blow to sustain. It could be said that I didn’t suffer the disconnection well. Blogging and Social Media Helped Me to Reconnect Perhaps it is because this blog has become such a large part of my life and the lives of so many around the world that I feel just as connected now as I did in those days before multiple sclerosis. Perhaps, as we...
Source: Life with MS - Category: Neurology Authors: Tags: multiple sclerosis community life with MS Living with MS Social Media trevis gleason Source Type: blogs