Managing MS

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A 2022 Honorable Mention Nonfiction/Reference book in the 30th Annual Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Awards</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Debbie Petrina understands MS: she has spent 41 years living with it and over 30 years educating counseling interacting and volunteering through numerous channels to help anyone deal with it. Since publishing Managing MS-Straight Talk from a Thirty-One Year Survivor in 2011 she was inspired to write this enhanced 2nd edition as her MS journey continued explaining how to proceed in the complicated and ever-changing world of MS.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Newly-diagnosed or older with MS? Trying to figure out the basics what treatments to take symptoms interrelationships? Or how to handle difficult subjects like bladder/bowel problems mental health stigmas and employment? In a what to know what to do user-friendly format readers are guided easily through current MS information and resources available today.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Managing MS offers patients and their loved ones hands-on knowledge and support to make life easier and less fearful. Others assisting MS patients will understand MS from a survivor's viewpoint and how they can help them move forward.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Debbie Petrina's remarkable book will be helpful to people with MS and their loved ones as they embark on their own journeys. -Barry A. Hendin M.D. Center for Neurology and Spine Phoenix AZ; MSAA Chief Medical Officer</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Petrina's book is rich not only in experience and information it includes validation from licensed professionals. Her take on conventional wisdom peer communication and advice feels just right to this reviewer. -Kim Dolce MSer Moderator MultipleSclerosis.net</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This book is an excellent and practical how-to guide for people newly diagnosed with MS. I wish my neurologist had recommended it it changed everything for me. If you're living with MS one way or another I can't recommend this book enough. -Amazon Verified Purchase</span></p>