Multiple Sclerosis (eBook)

Tips and Strategies for Making Life Easier, Third Edition

Shelley Peterman Schwarz (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017 | 3. Auflage
208 Seiten
Springer Publishing Company (Verlag)
978-0-8261-5634-1 (ISBN)

Infos

An MS diagnosis presents many unanswered questions: How is this diagnosis going to change my life? Where do I begin? How will I manage to take care of my family, work, and travel? No one knows the answers to these questions better than Shelley Peterman Schwarz, who has lived nearly forty years with multiple sclerosis. Schwarz imbues her updated collection of practical tips and short cuts with personal stories that highlight her trials and triumphs. Shelley shares her real-life experiences as a wife, mother, friend, and employee/employer coping, managing, and growing with MS with a humorous warmth and unflinching honesty.This extensively revised and updated third edition is packed with helpful information and now includes over 800 tips and new solutions and strategies for confronting the challenges of living a full life with a debilitating chronic illness. With Shelley's guidance, readers will learn to conserve valuable time and energy, develop techniques for making everyday tasks easier, manage symptoms, maintain positive relationships, stay motivated, and bounce back when MS knocks you down.Expanded chapters cover medical issues, home safety and accessibility, dressing and looking your best, and travel. NEW sections include:A Thriver's GuideTaking Charge Mentally and PhysicallyFamily and FriendsMarriageSexual Compatibility and IntimacyBeing a ParentDriving and DisabilityWorking Finding Help and SupportWith hundreds of new tips and tools, and practical wisdom for meeting challenges large and small, this book continues to inform, encourage, validate, and empower individuals and families living with multiple sclerosis.

Inhalt

1. Basic Principles for Living with MS

2. A Thriver's Guide

3. Taking Charge - Mentally and Physically

4. Medical Issues

5. Family and Friends

6. Marriage

7. Sexual Compatibility and Intimacy

8. Being a Parent

9. Your House and Home

10. Mealtime

11. Dressing - Looking Your Best

12. Working

13. Driving and Disability

14. Travel

15. Finding Help and Support

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.4.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Alternative Heilverfahren
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Krankheiten / Heilverfahren
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Dermatologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Neurologie
• Schlagworte: Anxiety • body connection • chronic illness • dating relationship • informed decisions • Medical Care • Mental Health • mind- multiple sclerosis • patients • physical health • real-life stories • self care • sexual compatibility • sexual intimacy • weekend getaways
• ISBN-10: 0-8261-5634-7 / 0826156347
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8261-5634-1 / 9780826156341