Welcome to Living Well with MS Coffee Break, where we are pleased to welcome Dave Jackman as our guest! Dave is the Overcoming MS Ambassador for Scotland – Fife. Prior to diagnosis, he was a keen runner and played cricket for over 40 years. His interests now include computers, cricket, dogs, music, home exchanging and travel. 

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Topics and Timestamps:

01:51 Can you tell us a little about yourself, day-to-day life as a partner to someone on the Overcoming MS program? 

03:40 So you've mentioned you were diagnosed about 11 years ago. How did you deal with it? 

07:28 When did you come across the Overcoming MS program? 

19:26 Tell us a bit about where you've come from in terms of exercise and how you've managed to continue with exercise post diagnosis. 

21:41 How about the other of the three big pillars, diet, exercise, and mindfulness. 

25:22 You participate in home exchanges, and you've got an Airbnb so can you tell us a bit about that? 

29:54 You've contributed to the Overcoming MS Handbook, this latest book by Professor George Jelinek talking about progressive MS. So how was that working on that project? 

30:35 You mentioned having a food log and a symptom checklist. So firstly, how do you go about having a food log? 

37:34 You mentioned the Launde Abbey retreat. And you're also involved in reunions for that. So how is that with the reunions? Because it's been, I think it may be 10 years since the retreat. Do you still have regular meetups? 

42:26 One final question we always ask, do you have any key nugget of advice for people, particularly people who are newly following Overcoming MS to adopt the program? 

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