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"A Fortunate Man with MS" PodcastA Very Special EpisodeHi, this is Jack Greenman. In honor of national MS Awareness Week, which this year is March 9-15, I’m excited to bring you this very special episode of “A Fortunate Man with MS”! For the first time on this podcast, you will hear my brother, Gil Greenman, tell his story in his own voice.
2025-03-0304 min"A Fortunate Man with MS" PodcastReasons for OptimismIn my work on mindfulness, I open to what arises: sounds, sensations—including pain—and then, of course, thoughts. They arrive like waves on the ocean. Occasional waves of reality-based optimism are appearing.
2024-10-1403 min"A Fortunate Man with MS" PodcastOur Summer on the Bay DowntownMy amazing wife Lisa shared an idea: “I think Gil and I should come [to the Edgewater Hotel} every Friday in the summer and spend the night. We can have drinks in the bar in the middle of the day with one set of friends and then later have dinner with another group.“ And so it began...
2024-09-2408 min"A Fortunate Man with MS" PodcastLet's DanceWill the chronic inflammation and lesions that have plagued me and brought a dramatic worsening of my condition for almost two years start to calm down?
2024-06-2905 min"A Fortunate Man with MS" PodcastPurposeAs my acute troubles continue - chronic brain inflammation with new lesions, losing my vision, inability to feed myself, and confusion- I have been thinking about purpose.
2024-06-1203 min"A Fortunate Man with MS" PodcastThe Old StreetFor me, 2018 was like navigating this street in a wheelchair. I am currently sitting stuck in the largest pothole.
2024-04-1503 min"A Fortunate Man with MS" PodcastLessons from Mr. Rogers "It’s you I like, It’s not the things you wear, It’s not the way you do your hair– But it’s you I like The way you are right now . . ."
2024-04-0503 min"A Fortunate Man with MS" PodcastSamuraiLying on the wood floor, I played a game with myself. I imagined that I was a samurai sleeping across the threshold of his Lord. Samurai slept on wood without anything else, I thought. So “samurai! Bonsai!”“ Whatever. I was still stuck.
2024-03-3103 min"A Fortunate Man with MS" PodcastGet Busy Living“Please call me asap” read the text from my neurologist. This could not be good news.
2024-03-1803 min"A Fortunate Man with MS" PodcastMindful Through TerrorThese days, my experience of walking feels like climbing a rock face.
2024-02-2903 min"A Fortunate Man with MS" PodcastChristmas WolvesThere is a story about a Cherokee grandfather teaching his grandson about life.
2024-02-1201 min"A Fortunate Man with MS" PodcastGratitude showers our lives with GraceGrateful and together, we celebrated on Thanksgiving. Now we move forward in Grace to the next moment. And the next.
2024-02-0502 min"A Fortunate Man with MS" PodcastAn Urban Symphony with Extra Needles After my needles were in, I stared at the ceiling and tried to meditate on my breath. Not today. Frustrated, I smoldered until a set of sounds came together in my conscious mind.
2024-01-2903 min"A Fortunate Man with MS" PodcastThe Story No One Wants to ReadEveryone living with MS knows that each story is individual and unique. The picture of the disease that we paint needs to take into account some of the harsher parts.
2024-01-1704 min"A Fortunate Man with MS" PodcastAt Last, a Disease Modifying TherapyThen I wake up. But this is no dream. This is the story of my year-long search for a treatment, a disease-modifying therapy that will halt or at least slow this inexorable disease.
2024-01-0905 min"A Fortunate Man with MS" Podcast11:17amMy dogs are thinking “will he ever get up from the chair and go somewhere else so that something interesting might happen?"
2023-12-1303 min2023-12-0602 min"A Fortunate Man with MS" PodcastSome Good News from an Old BuddyMy left leg sucks, no two ways about it. But last week it started to suck worse, like a lot worse...
2023-11-2703 min"A Fortunate Man with MS" PodcastFamily and Forgiveness, by Pope Francis"There is no perfect family."
2023-11-0602 min"A Fortunate Man with MS" PodcastNo Mud, No LotusThere’s been a lot of mud described here in the last few posts, so I thought I’d describe a Lotus that bloomed in Washington DC recently.
2023-10-2303 min"A Fortunate Man with MS" PodcastInspiration on a Newark NJ flight to DCWhen we landed, I waited in my seat as usual so as not to hold up deplaning while I embark on yet another rolling airport adventure. I noticed that the soldier was waiting also, and as soon as the last passenger went by, she came over to readjust my crutches and hand me my bag.
2023-10-2303 min"A Fortunate Man with MS" PodcastA Sign for a Broken RoadGil writes a short poem about the new disabled parking sign in front of his house.
2023-10-0201 min"A Fortunate Man with MS" PodcastNot MS?My neurologist sounded frightened “I usually get paged by my office for MRI results like this. I can’t believe I missed them. I don’t want you to see the slides.” She said that these were the worst set of slides of my brain and spine that she had ever seen.
2023-09-2405 min"A Fortunate Man with MS" PodcastIt Happened at the Seattle Women's MarchJust to the side of the route, we were close enough to touch them. An older woman with a beautiful, careworn face and deep, piercing eyes singled me out.
2023-09-1203 min"A Fortunate Man with MS" PodcastCul-de-sacsI learned what the word “cul-de-sac” meant when my mother moved me and my brother to Bellevue, Washington, then a suburb of Seattle, now a major city in its own right. I had two different paper routes during two different periods of my adolescence in Bellevue. Both involved lots of turning around at the dead ends of suburban streets. Cul-de-sac is a much nicer word than dead end.
2023-09-0504 min"A Fortunate Man with MS" PodcastThe Master in the KitchenEvery six weeks, my beautiful wife transforms our house for a religious experience.
2023-08-2703 min"A Fortunate Man with MS" PodcastIs this the end?Although I use wheelchairs at work and for distance, my walker still supported those 50 or so paces from my door to a car or into a restaurant or around the house. Until two weeks ago.
2023-08-2105 min"A Fortunate Man with MS" PodcastGet Busy Living"Please call me asap" read the text from my neurologist. This could not be good news.
2023-08-0104 min"A Fortunate Man with MS" PodcastMindful Through TerrorThese days, my experience of walking feels like climbing a rock face.
2023-07-2603 min"A Fortunate Man with MS" PodcastIt happened on a grimy New York subway in 1985My first New York subway ride was in 1985, with a new friend in the tender first week of college. It brought a moment that will stay with me forever.
2023-07-0705 min"A Fortunate Man with MS" Podcast50 Shades of GreenmanTold in words, this is the story of how my faith grew since my last post. My angels — family, friends, colleagues, support team, et al. — in person and texts and emails and books have showered me with loving words and touch.
2023-05-2907 min"A Fortunate Man with MS" PodcastWhen illusion ends, what rushes in? Terror, then hopefully the calming sea.The MRI showed two new lesions on my brain. My grand illusion evaporated. This illusion, a sturdy structure of columns and marble and rationalization and denial. Gone.
2023-05-2105 min"A Fortunate Man with MS" PodcastI felt a surge of anger, sadness, and frustration as she said this to me...In hindsight, I wish I had asked some more general questions and followed up, but I am also terrified and dismayed by the failure of the medical professionals to ask the question I was not asking.
2023-05-1607 min"A Fortunate Man with MS" PodcastWhen You Are "Certain", Think Again, and Then Laugh!It's ridiculous for us to think we are really "certain" of anything!
2023-05-0802 min"A Fortunate Man with MS" PodcastEnormous Support at the Dinner of Champions, May 9, 2015Life with MS is a dance – for me, my wife, and everyone we love. Sometimes, MS takes the lead and we must follow. At other times, MS must follow our lead.
2023-04-3007 min"A Fortunate Man with MS" PodcastToday I Bought a Wheelchair. It’s Okay, and I May Even Walk More Because of It.Sometimes what we dread can surprise us and turn around.
2023-04-2304 min"A Fortunate Man with MS" PodcastOn Board / The Day We First Met and the Dance BeganI will never know whether my health would have been better in a less stressful job. I do know that to my dying day, I will be grateful that I took my shot.
2023-04-1612 min2023-04-0903 min2023-04-0204 min"A Fortunate Man with MS" PodcastMS and the Buddha and more...In three short posts, Gil begins to find his spiritual footing.
2023-03-2602 min"A Fortunate Man with MS" PodcastHeatWalking into any new space, Gil is always thinking, “how hot is it?”
2023-03-1905 min"A Fortunate Man with MS" PodcastLaughing and ConnectedGil's college friend Eli comes to stay for a couple of days. In the laughter that ensues, the arc of their adult lives seems to stretch in a comically predictable and somewhat poignant line, punctuated each morning by a truly obnoxious alarm clock!
2023-03-1106 min"A Fortunate Man with MS" PodcastThe FallGil's long history of pushing through MS exacerbations, cheerfully making adaptations like using a cane, and working at the pace of a DC litigator came to an end when the one muscle he could not circumvent or supplement failed — his brain.
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MMA History PodcastCHRIS BRENNAN - Early Career (2000-2003)Send us a text#ChrisBrennan #UFC #MMAHistoryChris Brennan returns for part 2 of his DEEPDIVE with the LytesOut Podcast. We are still talking about the early part of Brennan's career and barely get into the 2000's. Be on the lookout for part 3.0:00 Podcast intro0:19 Guest intro0:59 Chris Brennan vs RobertWynne at RSF 17:53 Chris Brennan vs Marc Laimon at Grapplers Quest10:12 Randy Greenman biker gang story13:35 Marc Laimon controversy19:16 Grappling on the street21:50 Chris Brennan vs Kevin
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