Where do I begin? How are my symptoms today different from yestersday?
As I was reading Multiple Sclerosis News Today this morning, I ventured upon a list of collective nouns for the everchanging symptoms that are unique for each person. I often read the colum of Benjamin Hofmeister, and today I was nodding along with each collective. So along with a murder of crows and a flock of birds, and a crash of rhinoceroses, we have some awesome terms for our symptoms–just for fun, of course.
by Benjamin Hofmeister | December 26, 2024
I will share his list as a beginning to help others understand:
A shock of Lhermitte’s sign
A crush of fatigue
A blurring of vision
A haze of cog fog
A scrape of wheelchairs
A clench of hands
A pinch of gait belts
A glare of strangers
A tug of therapists
A puddling of Uhthoff’s syndrome
A frown of neurologists
A concern of caregivers
A torque of falls
An irrelevance of wants
A confine or din of MRIs
A trickle of incontinence
A suffering of spasms
A slump of rollators
A stump of canes
A clutch or bind of MS hugs
A trip or drag of foot drop
A blaze of paresthesia
A hive of crawling sensations
An awkwardness or reluctance of questions
A backlog of constipation (sorry)
A mystery of bruises
A deluge of despair
A drowning of disappointment
A stagger of movement
A waggle of tremors
A surplus of spasticity
An unkindness of multiple sclerosis
My additions to this list:
A wonderment of the unknown
A scattering of skin sensations
A battery of finger knife cuts
MS Fortunate 