Six Questions with Bill Brayer
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msf_staffSix Questions with...
1. How has MS changed your life?
From having my own business and being very active to adjusting as to what I can do and forget what I can’t. The best thing I did was to become an MS volunteer and founded MS Helping Hands-MSHH & the MSHH Donor Closet as both provide services & resources that are not provided by NMSS and other local social services agencies.
2. What is the most important thing you’ve learned since your diagnosis?
How serious MS really is and that there are NO two people with MS alike. The general public still doesn’t have full knowledge of the disease and what the people and families of those with MS have to go through and how their lives have and will change.
3. How have you found support?
From the Sno-King support group that I have co-facilitated for over 20 years and from the MSF. My wife, family, church and friends have been very understanding of my symptoms and what I am no longer able to do.
4. What is the best coping tip you’ve picked up?
Live each day as if it were the first day of your life and enjoy it to it’s fullest. You may have MS, but MS doesn’t have you.
5. What is your favorite MS- or health-related website?
I actually cruise the Internet to learn all I can from many sites.
6. This is the bonus question! What question would you like to ask our readers?
What would you do if the shoe was on the other foot?
Your answer?
I hope that I would never turn away from someone I love or care about because she or he had a disability.
Really good question, Bill! What do you think, readers?
P.S. to people who came over from other sites: You can still join the discussion! Our blog supports openID (meaning if you have a blog on another site, you can probably use that to sign in as an openID commenter) or you can comment anonymously.
 | Six Questions with: William L. “Bill” Brayer - Founder of MS Helping Hands |
1. How has MS changed your life?
From having my own business and being very active to adjusting as to what I can do and forget what I can’t. The best thing I did was to become an MS volunteer and founded MS Helping Hands-MSHH & the MSHH Donor Closet as both provide services & resources that are not provided by NMSS and other local social services agencies.
2. What is the most important thing you’ve learned since your diagnosis?
How serious MS really is and that there are NO two people with MS alike. The general public still doesn’t have full knowledge of the disease and what the people and families of those with MS have to go through and how their lives have and will change.
3. How have you found support?
From the Sno-King support group that I have co-facilitated for over 20 years and from the MSF. My wife, family, church and friends have been very understanding of my symptoms and what I am no longer able to do.
4. What is the best coping tip you’ve picked up?
Live each day as if it were the first day of your life and enjoy it to it’s fullest. You may have MS, but MS doesn’t have you.
5. What is your favorite MS- or health-related website?
I actually cruise the Internet to learn all I can from many sites.
6. This is the bonus question! What question would you like to ask our readers?
What would you do if the shoe was on the other foot?
Your answer?
I hope that I would never turn away from someone I love or care about because she or he had a disability.
Really good question, Bill! What do you think, readers?
P.S. to people who came over from other sites: You can still join the discussion! Our blog supports openID (meaning if you have a blog on another site, you can probably use that to sign in as an openID commenter) or you can comment anonymously.