When Karen’s legs began to weaken, she moved from denial to despair. In this account of diagnosis, surgery and recovery, she reflects on how the body’s slow work of healing can echo the quieter, longer process of learning to live after grief.
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Multifocal motor neuropathy wants a piece of me… but I’m fortunate to have the help I need to fight back
Bardo Burner’s co-editor reflects on her struggle with multifocal motor neuropathy (MMN), a rare and incurable autoimmune disease. She has found much to be grateful for, discovering her predicament is not as hopeless as it first seemed This morning I woke up, picked up the large mug of tea my husband had left on theContinue reading “Multifocal motor neuropathy wants a piece of me… but I’m fortunate to have the help I need to fight back”
Bardo Burner 