Pajama Daze
Follow us on Facebook and Twitter
  • Home
  • Blog
    • PJ's Bookshelf
    • Entertainment Center
  • Pajama Jobs
    • Online Opportunities
  • Joyful Workers
  • Creative in Our Pajamas!
    • Poetry & Other Musings
  • Useful Links
  • Contact Us
  • About the author
  • Disclaimer

Despite MS, to Spite MS: One couple facing the challenges of life and Multiple Sclerosis by Dan and Jennifer Digmann

5/15/2013

1 Comment

 
Picture
Despite MS, to Spite MS is a book about love.  It is a love story between two people who have MS.  It tells about a love for life, a love for fun, a love to help others, a deep love for each other.  And to read it is to fall in love with Dan and Jennifer Digmann.

Despite MS, to Spite MS: One couple facing the challenges of life and Multiple Sclerosis makes me laugh.  It makes me cry.  It makes me want to reach out and hug Dan and Jennifer, because reading it makes me feel like they are my best friends.

The book is that good.  The Digmanns are that great.

Written in essay form, actually more like journal entries, the book reveals Dan's and Jennifer's personal accounts and feelings about their battles with two different forms of MS, their relationship, their love of music and baseball, their efforts to raise awareness of Multiple Sclerosis and advocacy for others who suffer with MS.  Personal photographs are included, making your reading experience even more intimate.  The Digmanns open their lives to the reader on a level most don't.  There is pain, fear and disappointment in their experience.  Yet they bless their story with humor and candor.  It is a powerful story of living powerfully, despite MS and to spite it.

Yes, I fell in love with the Digmanns, and thank them for their beautiful, touching, enjoyable book.  All I want to do now is sit by these folks at a Red Sox game and eat hot dogs.

Despite MS, to Spite MS: One couple facing the challenges of life and Multiple Sclerosis (2011, Magee Press) is available through amazon.com and DespiteMStoSpiteMS.com.  A portion of the proceeds go to Camp Courageous and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.  For more information about the Digmanns and their advocacy work, go to DanandJenniferDigmann.com.


1 Comment

    PJ's Bookshelf

    Reviews are the opinion of the author of this website unless otherwise indicated.

    Archives

    April 2020
    July 2019
    April 2019
    August 2017
    June 2017
    February 2017
    February 2016
    January 2016
    August 2015
    July 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    November 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013

    Categories

    All
    Caregiving
    Chronic Illness/Fatigue
    General Health

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly
Photo from Stéfan