https://anempoweredspirit.com/cure/ Cathy Chester, MS Advocate shares decades of wisdom Tue, 08 Jun 2021 23:15:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://anempoweredspirit.com/cure/#comment-29596 Wed, 26 Jul 2017 19:00:39 +0000 http://anempoweredspirit.clients.kidaweb.com/2017/06/09/cure/#comment-29596 THANK YOU FOR YOUR AMAZING EMPOWERING SPIRIT!!!
thank you for raising the awareness around MS!!
i am on this MS journey since 2007 and i have learned so much!
today I feel MS has been my greatest teacher and a gift (a very badly wrapped on indeed)!
i believe we can endMS! i believe the cure is inside!
i started to share my story this spring https://mouninabounaaly.com/
love
Mounina

]]> https://anempoweredspirit.com/cure/#comment-29572 Tue, 13 Jun 2017 10:35:19 +0000 http://anempoweredspirit.clients.kidaweb.com/2017/06/09/cure/#comment-29572 Cathy, I have to admit, I was one of those people who saw an article on this and sent it to the wife of my friend with MS. I wanted to let her decide whether to pass it onto him or not. Hopefully, she saw through it better than I did. Thanks for this important advice.

]]> https://anempoweredspirit.com/cure/#comment-29571 Mon, 12 Jun 2017 16:56:11 +0000 http://anempoweredspirit.clients.kidaweb.com/2017/06/09/cure/#comment-29571 for some reason, every time I comment it comes back to me saying, " You've said that already." So before I comment again, please let me know if you get this, and if so I will submit my comment. Thank you!

]]> https://anempoweredspirit.com/cure/#comment-29570 Sun, 11 Jun 2017 14:15:22 +0000 http://anempoweredspirit.clients.kidaweb.com/2017/06/09/cure/#comment-29570 great information thank you for sharing

]]> https://anempoweredspirit.com/cure/#comment-29569 Sat, 10 Jun 2017 14:08:50 +0000 http://anempoweredspirit.clients.kidaweb.com/2017/06/09/cure/#comment-29569 Once I got to text of the article, I came to think this researcher is doing interesting work; that hyperbolic headline doesn't help her, either. When she, inevitably, produces something less than a cure, whatever progress she makes might be framed as a failure.

]]> https://anempoweredspirit.com/cure/#comment-29568 Fri, 09 Jun 2017 20:07:00 +0000 http://anempoweredspirit.clients.kidaweb.com/2017/06/09/cure/#comment-29568 Hyperbole harms. Hope heals

]]> https://anempoweredspirit.com/cure/#comment-29567 Fri, 09 Jun 2017 19:04:49 +0000 http://anempoweredspirit.clients.kidaweb.com/2017/06/09/cure/#comment-29567 Oh I feel you on this Cathy! False hope is so dangerous and claims of wonderous cures, even when coming from a place of hope, can just plain hurt. I saw the study, thought of you and our other dear friend, read it, and saw how even though this is an amazing delivery system and a complete game changer, it is highly doubtful that they will figure out how to test it in humans in our lifetime. Promise is great but sometimes promise mascarades as false hope. I love that "one girl's opinion" and point of view! You and your voice are a gift and a valuable source of thought provoking information.

]]> https://anempoweredspirit.com/cure/#comment-29566 Fri, 09 Jun 2017 13:04:28 +0000 http://anempoweredspirit.clients.kidaweb.com/2017/06/09/cure/#comment-29566 It is so wrong to prematurely hype treatments like this when the outcomes are still unknown. Really unprofessional. In these days of click bait, though, it's become common, and I hate it. Thanks for sharing your perspective, Cathy. I agree with you completely.

]]> https://anempoweredspirit.com/cure/#comment-29565 Fri, 09 Jun 2017 12:53:25 +0000 http://anempoweredspirit.clients.kidaweb.com/2017/06/09/cure/#comment-29565 Thank you for putting some truth to the hype. Yes, in this media-crazed environment sensationalism rules the day and people are misled. It's just part and parcel of an overall devaluing of truth that is very distressing.

]]> https://anempoweredspirit.com/cure/#comment-29564 Fri, 09 Jun 2017 12:31:54 +0000 http://anempoweredspirit.clients.kidaweb.com/2017/06/09/cure/#comment-29564 I've never been one to try diet, massage, supplements or other non-medically demonstrated therapies to treat my MS in the 11 years since my diagnosis. Well meaning, kind friends and acquaintances are convinced that if I only eliminated gluten from my diet, ate like a cave person (do we really know what cave people ate?), or followed the advice of a practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine, my MS would be cured. I am all for anything that makes a person with MS feel better. I am never critical of those who feel better or even "cured" by any method they try. But I agree with you: be very, very cautious when you hear or read the word "cure."

]]> https://anempoweredspirit.com/cure/#comment-29563 Fri, 09 Jun 2017 12:25:10 +0000 http://anempoweredspirit.clients.kidaweb.com/2017/06/09/cure/#comment-29563 I'm so glad you wrote this is! I hope fellow MS'ers heed your words! It is very frustrating when people come up to you or email or phone and say so-and-so got cured because of this. Not only is it incorrect but it breeds a false sense of hope.

]]> https://anempoweredspirit.com/cure/#comment-29562 Fri, 09 Jun 2017 11:35:38 +0000 http://anempoweredspirit.clients.kidaweb.com/2017/06/09/cure/#comment-29562 With a title like that , sounds like they are only trying to rank high in SEO without considering how it sounds or the impact it will have on people.

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