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Overview

When attorney Jeffrey Gingold misplaced his wife on the living room couch and lost awareness of his children, little did he know that he was experiencing a hidden symptom of multiple sclerosis: cognitive difficulties. Facing the Cognitive Challenges of Multiple Sclerosis is a courageous and compelling personal account of one man's anguishing struggle with this aspect of the disease. It was written for the silent majority of MS patients who are privately dealing with MS cognitive symptoms and potential disabilities.

This new edition has been revised with on-point cognitive strategies and updated MS resources. The book includes a new foreword written by Dawn Langdon of the UK MS Trust and four new chapters that follow Jeffrey's journey since 2006. He openly explores some MS physical symptoms, which may accompany the thinking impediments that strike at his cognitive awareness and functions. Not only did he become more active in the movement to cure MS, the progression of his MS led to a more controversial MS treatment, in effort to make his disease manageable.

Whether or not a person is dealing with the cognitive issues of MS this book should be on the bookshelf of every individual who is dealing with MS.

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Gingold was a high-powered attorney with a wife and two young daughters when, at 36, he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS), a chronic disease that afflicts over 400,000 people in the United States. After five years of dealing with the effects of the disease's characteristic brain lesions, he retired from his law practice and became a volunteer and advocate for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. This book (the first edition was published in 2006) details the cognitive challenges he faced—losing his train of thought while making a statement in court, getting lost a few blocks from home, forgetting whether he had dropped his daughters off at school, and not really recognizing his wife sitting next to him on their sofa—and the way he coped with them, from practical aides to courage, humor, and persistence in finding a neurologist who took his smallest mental lapses seriously. Since then, he has switched to a new, controversial treatment that has put his MS into remission. VERDICT Gingold often speaks to groups afflicted with MS and their families and health-care providers, and this is another powerful testimony that interested readers will appreciate. Recommended.—Marcia Welsh, Dartmouth Coll. Lib., Hanover, NH

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781936303205
  • Publisher: Demos Medical Publishing, LLC
  • Publication date: 7/19/2011
  • Edition description: Second Edition
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 232
  • Sales rank: 210,054
  • Product dimensions: 5.90 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 0.60 (d)

Meet the Author

Jeffrey is the internationally acclaimed author of the Award-winning book, Facing the Cognitive Challenges of Multiple Sclerosis and an outspoken volunteer advocate on MS and cognitive disability. He has been a guest on The Montel Williams Show, NPR, numerous webcasts and national talk radio shows. In his second book, Mental Sharpening Stones: Manage the Cognitive Challenges of Multiple Sclerosis, Jeffrey provides strategies from people who have MS and medical providers, sharing their tactical advice on how to manage the "invisible MS.”

He was recently inducted to the 2010 National Multiple Sclerosis Society Hall of Fame for his Advocacy. Jeffrey is a published freelance writer and has authored numerous articles for U.S and international publications. He enjoys spending family time with his wife, Terri, two adorable daughters, Lauren and Meredith, and one cat named Mickey — named after the baseball player, not the mouse.

Table of Contents

Foreword xi

Preface xiii

Acknowledgments xv

Introduction xvii

Chapter 1 "Hollar," if You Need Me 1

Chapter 2 The Knock at the Door 13

Chapter 3 Music and Mirrors 27

Chapter 4 Unanswered Questions 41

Chapter 5 It's in the House 51

Chapter 6 The Family Mask 67

Chapter 7 Feeling the Edges 85

Chapter 8 Don't Just Stand There … 97

Chapter 9 Taking the Middle Fork 117

Chapter 10 Drifting and Dragging in a Mental Wheelchair 129

Chapter 11 Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are 143

Chapter 12 In the Game 153

Chapter 13 A Team Effort 165

Chapter 14 Gathering New Pieces 181

In Summation … 195

Resources 201

Index 205

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 22, 2008

    Facing the Cognitive Challenges of Multiple Sclerosis

    In this book, author Jeffrey N. Gingold details the confusion that clouds his mind as a result of multiple sclerosis (MS). Gingold¿s firsthand accounts of incidents where he has dealt with cognitive difficulties ¿ a common symptom of MS ¿ are bound to be relatable for many people with MS. Reading Gingold¿s anecdotes about MS-related incidents he has experienced, such as becoming lost while driving near his home, may help to relieve any feelings of embarrassment that people who have MS are keeping to themselves after facing similar situations. This book goes a step further than being simply a memoir by featuring resources to assist readers who might also be experiencing cognitive difficulties. Gingold describes how to recognize cognitive difficulties, and then encourages readers to become educated about MS and make changes to maintain a satisfying quality of life. By addressing a symptom of MS sometimes left out of discussions because of embarrassment or a failure to recognize it, Gingold has provided MS patients and their families with a valuable source of empathy and advice on coping with the disease.

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