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No Excuses, No Limits: My Personal Journey Towards Health & Happiness | Journal Entry #4

Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis aka MS in May 2009, Patrice Majors the co-owner and founder of FOCUS on the 615, shares her personal story about living with this disease as she tells you where she’s been, how she got here, and where she’s headed.  As a result of numerous problems with MS and a recent health scare with her heart, she embarks on a journey to return to the best shape she can get into.  She will share with you what she learns about good health along the way as she trains and prepares to enter the MS Jack and Back bike event here in Nashville in the fall where she has set her goal to complete the 120 mile bike ride from Nashville to Lynchburg, TN (Jack Daniels Distillery) and back in a 2-day ride.  Come share the experience with her as she trains for this event and tells you her story of how she got here in the first place seeking to raise awareness for MS along the way.

 

A Light At The End Of The Dark Tunnel And A Fork In The Road

Well, all things come to an end and luckily that dark period did, too.  Now, please know that I’m not the kind who wallows in self-pity.  This actually was something quite common for anyone diagnosed with an incurable, chronic illness.  There is mourning for the loss of the body once had.  The one thing you thought you could always count on, your body, now working against you and much weaker than before.  There also is the loss of self-confidence that comes with it.  So much self-doubt.  No longer feeling capable of so many things.  Feeling weak, like could stumble &  fall both literally AND figuratively speaking.  It was a hard period, but I firmly believe that we must all at some point in our lives be forced to face our fears.  We learn WHO exactly we are in those instances.  Continue Reading →

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No Excuses, No Limits: My Personal Journey Towards Health & Happiness | Journal Entry # 3

Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis aka MS in May 2009, Patrice Majors the co-owner and founder of FOCUS on the 615, shares her personal story about living with this disease as she tells you where she’s been, how she got here, and where she’s headed.  As a result of numerous problems with MS and a recent health scare with her heart, she embarks on a journey to return to the best shape she can get into.  She will share with you what she learns about good health along the way as she trains and prepares to enter the MS Jack and Back bike event here in Nashville in the fall where she has set her goal to complete the 120 mile bike ride from Nashville to Lynchburg, TN (Jack Daniels Distillery) and back in a 2-day ride.  Come share the experience with her as she trains for this event and tells you her story of how she got here in the first place seeking to raise awareness for MS along the way.

 

The Dark Place

Well, after the benefit was done and the month of house rest, things settled down a bit.  Fortunately for me, Copaxone which is one of the MS therapies, does work for me.  It was able to stop the progression and things calmed down.  However, as things began to settle down and friends went back to their normal lives, there was just me left to deal with my “new normal” of living with MS.

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No Excuses, No Limits: My Personal Journey Towards Health & Happiness | Journal Entry #2

Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis aka MS in May 2009, Patrice Majors the co-owner and founder of FOCUS on the 615, shares her personal story about living with this disease as she tells you where she’s been, how she got here, and where she’s headed.  As a result of numerous problems with MS and a recent health scare with her heart, she embarks on a journey to return to the best shape she can get into.  She will share with you what she learns about good health along the way as she trains and prepares to enter the MS Jack and Back bike event here in Nashville in the fall where she has set her goal to complete the 120 mile bike ride from Nashville to Lynchburg, TN (Jack Daniels Distillery) and back in a 2-day ride.  Come share the experience with her as she trains for this event and tells you her story of how she got here in the first place seeking to raise awareness for MS along the way.

 

Well, I guess I’m ready to tell the next piece to the story now.

The MonSter Within

Oh, yes, so the 2nd piece to my story about how I became an entertainment journalist and created FOCUS on the 615, is because a MonSter came into my life.  That MonSter dwells inside me to this day.  What the heck am I talking about? MS aka multiple sclerosis aka the MonSter.  What exactly IS MS? Well, let me explain.

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No Excuses, No Limits: My Personal Journey Towards Health & Happiness | The Beginning

Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis aka MS in May 2009, Patrice Majors the co-owner and founder of FOCUS on the 615, shares her personal story about living with this disease as she tells you where she’s been, how she got here, and where she’s headed.  As a result of numerous problems with MS and a recent health scare with her heart, she embarks on a journey to return to the best shape she can get into.  She will share with you what she learns about good health along the way as she trains and prepares to enter the MS Jack and Back bike event here in Nashville in the fall where she has set her goal to complete the 120 mile bike ride from Nashville to Lynchburg, TN (Jack Daniels Distillery) and back in a 2-day ride.  Come share the experience with her as she trains for this event and tells you her story of how she got here in the first place seeking to raise awareness for MS along the way.

 

People often ask me how I got to be an entertainment journalist and doing what I do. So, I’m going to try to explain all of this and take you on a very personal journey with me that I share through entries just like this as I work to regain my health and finding my happy place along the way. I’m hoping that by sharing my personal story on here, that maybe I will inspire or help someone just like me that might be going through a difficult time in their life and struggling with something. Do you know anybody like that? Oh, yeah, that’s probably you, right? Because the fact of the matter is that ALL of us have either struggled or are struggling with SOMETHING in their life. I’m not unique by any means. I’m just a person trying to live my life the best way that I know how. Sometimes I get things right, sometimes I fail miserably. At the end of my life, though, I want to be able to look back and say that I made a difference somehow. I just want to be happy and live a long fruitful like filled with lots of love, laughter, and good times. So, if you’ll indulge me, I’m going to attempt to share my very personal story of how I got to be in this place in my life running an online entertainment magazine called FOCUS on the 615 where I interview artists, attend special events, and award show. I’ve got a story to tell that I think is worth sharing and I hope you’ll be interested in hearing about it.  Here goes!

 

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