Multiple Sclerosis Book Club: DREAMS by Kristie Salerno Kent

“The word ‘DREAMS’ may end in MS but MS didn’t end my dreams, don’t let it end yours” lives large as a theme throughout Kristie Salerno Kent’s new book, DREAMS. Many of us first came know Kristie through a short film she produced in conjunction with that National MS Society’s Moving Forward Film Festival a few years back.  We find out through this tome, that she had been reaching out to people with MS for a number of years prior to that. The precursors to diagnoses that are mentioned in the first chapter, Dreaming of the Spotlight, can be all too familiar to someone living with multiple sclerosis.  Kristie’s dreams of the spotlight may be different that the ‘stage’ we were working toward (or on), but I think we can all relate to the feeling that our body – or our mind as she wrote in the words, “…even concerned I was dealing with multiple personalities.  This simply did not seem like the ‘me’ that I knew” – are rebelling against us. Little did she, or we, know that that was indeed the fact. I found Kristie’s honesty about her search for explanation while simultaneously trying to avoid the much sought-after answers refreshing in its honesty.  I too could relate to explaining away or ignoring until the disease would no longer be disregarded.  Then, unlike Kristie, I simply couldn’t try to power though. While she put the binder of MS information on the shelf (literally and figuratively), I devoured mine.  I’m not saying that one is...
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