Because I’m a writing fool (who also happens to have MS), I have volunteered my services for the Georgia MS Society, which is located here in Atlanta. In fact, today I went to a training session in order to become an official peer counselor for newly diagnosed people, which will likely be a post of its own once I’ve had enough time to process everything I absorbed today.
Here is my first piece for their newsletter, a service provider spotlight for a local neurologist who is taking steps to eliminate Multiple sclerosis. If you would like to read it in a larger format, click on each page and the the + sign when it is full screen.
Very impressive. It feels good to do what you love and make a difference at the same time. Bravo!
It was fun to do an interview and then pull it all together in a piece. Very cool to see what doctors are doing for their patients as both a physician and an advocate.