Description
Book SynopsisThis medically up-to-date and compassionate book offers guidance not only to patients and their families but to healthcare professionals, psychologists, psychiatrists, and physical and occupational therapists.
Trade ReviewDr. Furney draws on her own experience and medical expertise to show that life can be lived to the fullest with MS. She covers psychological challenges, having children, handling a career, and staying healthy-all in a readable-over-a-cup-of-coffee kind of way. Unfailingly honest, Dr. Furney shows a very human aspect of the doctor-patient relationship. Momentum Magazine This is an excellent addition to the MS literature, offering hope to patients and helping to educate healthcare professionals about what it is really like being on the other side of the physician-patient encounter. -- Joseph I. Sirven Doody's Review Service 2009
Table of ContentsSeries Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Being Diagnosed
Chapter 2. Grieving
Chapter 3. The Psychological Challenges of MS
Chapter 4. Facing the Needle: The MS Medications
Chapter 5. Whom Do I Tell and When?
Chapter 6. Impact on Our Jobs
Chapter 7. Having Children
Chapter 8. Staying Healthy and Fit
Chapter 9. Managing the Fatigue of Multiple Sclerosis
Chapter 10. Could I Be Depressed?
Chapter 11. You and Your Doctor
Chapter 12. Dealing with Disability
Chapter 13. Getting Involved with the MS Community
Chapter 14. Finding Balance
Conclusion
Appendix: The Facts About MS
Resources
References
Index
