{"id":510,"date":"2018-03-19T19:08:44","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T19:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/debbiepetrina.com\/?p=510"},"modified":"2022-03-29T17:02:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T17:02:08","slug":"march-is-ms-awareness-month-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debbiepetrina.com\/?p=510","title":{"rendered":"March is MS Awareness Month: Education!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 2018<\/p>\n<p>I let my hair down last night.\u00a0 I posted a negative, distressing message on FB.<\/p>\n<p>I have just reached my 42nd year of living with MS, and I was in one of my distressing moods.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t we all have them, MS or not?<\/p>\n<p>This is MS Awareness month, and I guess I was in one of my &#8220;down&#8221; moods and irritated by the upbeat MS ads I had been seeing everywhere. I was tired of all the happy, happy posts on FB, and wanted to express my real feelings at that time.<\/p>\n<p>Truth is, people need EDUCATED about MS.\u00a0 It sucks. It&#8217;s hard. And I&#8217;m tired of the pretentious posts by people who glorify that that &#8220;MS&#8221; doesn&#8217;t define me!\u00a0 And they show people with MS doing all kinds of things with wonderful results.<\/p>\n<p>I want honestly. Realism.\u00a0 Does that even exist anymore?<\/p>\n<p>For all of you that so generously given me your support, I can&#8217;t thank you enough.\u00a0 It&#8217;s lifted the air under my wings, and when ready, I will move on.\u00a0 I love you all.<\/p>\n<p>Debbie<br \/>\nwww.DebbieMS.com<br \/>\nAuthor, Trained MS Counselor, MS Survivor<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 2018 I let my hair down last night.\u00a0 I posted a negative, distressing message on FB. I have just reached my 42nd year of living with MS, and I was in one of my distressing moods.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t we all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/debbiepetrina.com\/?p=510\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debbiepetrina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debbiepetrina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debbiepetrina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debbiepetrina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debbiepetrina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/debbiepetrina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":818,"href":"https:\/\/debbiepetrina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions\/818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debbiepetrina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debbiepetrina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debbiepetrina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}