Just wondering how everyone arrived at the screen name you chose. It says not to use your real name when you create an account. Bet there are some good tales! Molly(abigail), my heart dog, was sleeping at my feet when I created an account. Let's hear your stories! I am looking forward to many, but especially hairbrain's! 😎
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How did you arrive at your screen name?
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I saw both parts of my user name as gifts I have been given despite this hardship of progressive MS, God is still good to me
Lovely, hopeandgrace ! 🤗
Amen. Same here. He’s the only thing that’s sane in my life that and my grand babies.
Donnie
That's the sweetest attitude, hopeandgrace. Thank you. I am inspired!
I’ve had mine for a long time. A friend of mine came up with it probably in late 70s or early 80s. My first name is Donnie and last name starts with a D hence Double D. I liked it se much that I had it custom painted on my Harley tanks while I was still able to ride.
God bless all my MS family
Donnie
Nice to hear from you, Doubled51 🤗
Good to slow down long enough to reply. It’s been a crazy year or so. Takes all my energy to stay out of hospital. I fell little over a year ago in June. When I got to emergency room I had a broken ankle in 3 place’s pneumonia and afib. Now it seems every time I go to my cardiologist I’m having a crazy heartbeat and she sends me to emergency room. Then about 3 months ago I totaled my truck. Ran off the road within a mile from lost control and head on with a tree. Sent me into floor stuck between seat and under dash. Guys who lived there didn’t want to but I convinced them to pull me out by my legs. Hospital checked me and nothing was broken but I was beat up and bruised for 3months.since then all my time was spent looking for a truck I can get in and out of by myself. My only problem now is having a rider to get my rollover out for me. I’ve fallen so many time it’s ridiculous. I fell 3 times in one day last week. Neuro just took me off ocrevus and started Kestimpa.
Other than that everything’s been great . Haha how about you.
I am well, Doubled51 , and staying out of trouble, as much as possible, in Arizona. Did I mention that I am a grandma? Yep! That is my excitement! 🤗 You must need a bubble suit, and I am happy that you have a few guardian angels looking after you!
Congratulations Carole. I’ve got 3 grown grapdkids and 9 great kids. 2iof my greatgrand sons live with us I’m a blessed man.
Donnie
Yes, indeed you are, Donnie 🤗
Oh, no!! Donnie, it sure has been quite the year for you. I’m so sorry for all you’ve gone through. You’re amazing! Keep going, but please be careful!
That crash must have been so scary! And then add on the falls! 😱 I agree with carolek572: you do need a bubble suit
It happened so fast that zi didn’t have to be scared
Goodness, you have been through a lot. What a trouper. Keep going, doubled! You're doing good!
How are you doing? Have missed hearing from you.
Been a wild ride mrs mike how about you when I’m not hitting trees and killing trucks. I spent2 2 years getting it just the way I wanted then I wiped it out in 3 seconds.
Donnie
Interesting! Doubled. I love it! 'Course, we females in the group immediately think of a bra size. 🤣
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Did not know the rules for creating a screen name, and I used my email (without the gobbledygook after the @ sign). I know, booooooring! 🥱
Not boring at all, Carole! What does the k stand for? Or can you say? (security and all...)
Not at all, Mollyabigail , it is the first letter to my last name. Again, booooooring 🥱
I always choose things that are related to my family, so they're easy to remember, but not quite accurate. Like, Nora's not my daughter but she was a real person at one time.
Sounds like a song, NorasMom ! 😂
I understand. My problem is remembering passwords. I can’t remember my bank password. I have to call my wife and listen to my wife. Lol.
Donnie
I had to give mine to my son.
Doubled51 I had a similar problem with my password. Not anymore since I use names of my last or future vacations.
You go on vacation? Will you take me next time? 🤪
I have the banking apps on my phone so I can just use my finger print! I set my phone up to use my finger print, as well as a back up code I can tell others just in case 🤗
Sweet! There's more to that story, NorasMom. Tell us about Nora when you have time, please? Or if you care to?
She was my mother’s favorite grandmother – The jolly, round one who loved to laugh, crocheted elaborate dresses for her granddaughters and their dolls, and always found money to buy dill pickles out of the barrel or get an ice cream sundae at the corner store. She grew up on a farm, the youngest of 12 children born to a Civil War veteran who was married 3 times. She met my great-grandfather while he was still married to someone else, so she arranged to “visit her sister” until he was free, after which they ran across state lines to get married. We don’t think her very strict mother ever knew about that first wife, but they adored each other until the end. Sadly, she died unexpectedly the year before my parents got married, so I never had the chance to meet her.
That's a good story! I wish I had known Nora! Can't you just picture her?
I can! The whole family loved her, so I grew up hearing stories about her constantly. My own grandmother lived another 53 years, and she frequently mentioned how much she missed Mama.
What a legacy to leave behind. We could all learn a lot from Nora. 🤍
Instead of my name, I used my husband's, just adding on the mrs! I know not very original🙂
More original than mine, mrsmike 😂
Hey, it works for you! I like it!
I think I must've signed up on a Monday night after class ( aqua Zumba) and it was the first thing that came to mind 😆 I still go most every week and LOVE IT!
That’s your story and you are sticking to it, correct AquaZumbaFan ? 😂
😂🤣 absolutely!
Aqua Zumba. It sounds fun! You must live in a metropolis. We do not have aqua anything in my backwoods area!
Oh guurl.. I have lived in rural life for 30 years but the city has been creeping closer.. I have to drive about 40 to 45 minutes one-way four aqua Zumba and aqua barre, but only about 30 to 35 minutes to get to aqua yoga.. I belong to the same gym, but they have different locations with different classes.. it is truly been a lifesaver for me and super helpful in keeping me upright.. it is totally worth the drive. Sometimes I have a driver and sometimes I do it myself. One really good thing is my son lives just 2 miles from the furthest one so I can always go and at his house if needed.
What is aqua anything, AquaZumbaFan ? Is it doing these activities in the water? If so, it sounds refreshing! 
I used the 'aqua anything', just to include the 3 types of aqua exercises she listed. Aqua zumba, aqua barre and aqua yoga. It does sound refreshing, doesn't it?
So, no water, Mollyabigail . Do you do it in a blue outfit, or until you are blue in the face? Just being silly 🙃
In my case, it would be blue in the face! 😂
It was around Christmas and I needed a user name and happened to hear "Deck the Halls".
I remember you saying that you don’t particularly like Christmas, correct falalalala ? 😂
You are correct.
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😂
I understand. Christmas is difficult for a healthy person. Now, it is almost unachievable. I like the part about celebrating the birth of Christ, but so much has been added to it. Don't let me get on my soapbox here! I can fuss for 20 minutes about how commercialized it has become.
I know what you mean 
good question!
"Anais" because "Anais Anais" is the name of a favorite perfume of mine.
"Hunter" because I was into an addictive hunting game on my phone when I created the account.
go figure why I put the two together.
Funny! What is the game? We might all want to hunt!
I really don't remember. Welcome to ms....
I chose the first initial of my name, my then last name, and then my birthday 🤗
You have a birthday coming up a month from today! Goodness, I have sons older than you.
Yep!! I still don't know what I want for my bday, mind. My husband is 4 years & 9 months older than me. His bday is on the 15th December! He tells people he's an 80s kid, but then he remembers his older brothers giving him a cuff to the back of his head, telling him, "you've only been in the 80s for 16 days! You're more like an old 90s kid!" 🤣
Great question.
I was using a tablet borrowed from the hospital I was in at the time, I first joined up for ICUSteps, that's another story, but I may have been mistyping. I tried to sign up as Kit but I don't think it likes 3-letter usernames, so I tried Kit1 and it didn't like that, so I tried Kit10 and it accepted that. I didn't realise it might be read as Kitten for ages, I didn't mean to be called anything that twee.
Why Kit? I've used that as an online name for a while, it's useful to have something that isn't obviously gendered because there's a lot of online sexism. It comes from the fact that my parents told me they would have called me Christopher if I'd been a boy (no scans or gender reveal parties back in the 1960s!) and Kit is a nice short form of Christopher as well as similar to Kate, which for some reason I decided I'd like to have been called.
Kit10, kitten. Interesting! Were you supposed to be a boy? My parents tried 3 times for a boy, but God gave them 3 girls instead. We are the caboose of the babyboomers!
I have my middle initial, first initial and four last letter is my maiden name. I just liked it when I created it when signing up. A lot of names were taken🙏🏾
A lot of names were taken for me as well. I tried my dogs names that I have had over the years and they were taken. Finally decided to use my mom's maiden name. Swanberg!
Interesting! Good idea to include your maiden name too.
True Story. I just had to go into settings to find what my username is. I couldn’t remember. I guess I missed the part about not using your name. I used my first name & initials for the rest.
😂 Sounds like something I would do. Thank you, Sandra!
My name starts with a K and my favorite artist is Salvador Dali.
Ahh, interesting. I have often wondered about the Dali part.
Mine is pretty boring. Cindy is my first name. RN is what I am. 68 is my birth year.
Are you still able to work, Cindy? I have deep respect for the RN's where my mother is a resident. They have much responsibility!
I'm still working full time. My hands are unreliable and my balance has led to some hilarious moments. I'm the head nurse for a school district. I have about 4500 babies. They make it worth the MS nonsense.
You must tell us more when time permits. Sounds like you are dedicated to your job!
Surely the name goatgal needs little explanation....but here goes. When I chose it, I was missing my small goat herd (rehomed when I had to sell my 20 acre place), It's apt now, again, as three doe kids have come back to me to live out their senior years, In addition to me, Old Woman Farm now has 3 old goats, 4 old hens, 1 old dog and 1 old woman, all of us annoyed by 1 young rooster here at Wobbly Corners.
A country girl! I love it! My neighbor two doors down from us has a rooster. I HATE that rooster. He crows about 16 hours of the day. Aren't they annoying?
My neighbors on both sides are separated from my rooster by 75 feet of woodland so he doesn't annoy them. But he's not far enough from my bedroom so I hear him every morning from about 3;30 to 7 ish when I go out to let the gang wander with the goats. But roosters can definitely be annoying! I once lived near a rooster whose crow sounded like Happy Birthday! which was a fine way to start every day. Unfortunately this current fellow sounds like a truncated air horn.
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My screen name came from my eldest nephew. Back in 1991, when he was 2, my sister was trying to get him to say my first name, but somehow he came up with Newt! This is nothing even remotely close to my actual name!! 😆She tried repeatedly for months and it always came out the same. Eventually, The entire family started calling me Newt and to all of my nieces and nephews I am Aunt Newt.😁 However, I might need to change it soon because I now have a 3-year-old grandson and yes, he's started calling me Grandma Newt! 🤣
That is absolutely wonderful! The names the children give us are always the best.
I agree! Funny thing is, my son seems to have avenged me ages ago. The nephew who started calling me Newt is named Andrew and when my son started speaking he always called him “Achoo”!! And like mine, it stuck! He has grown up with the entire family calling him Achoo! That was much harder for him to explain to friends and girlfriends! 🤣
That's hilarious! Cute story!
I have lots of gardens and it is the place I heal my heart when I am sad. Anything with garden was taken, so I ended up alluding to my time in the garden.
Tell me more! Do you sit in the garden and enjoy nature? Or do you dig in the dirt? I have known people who LOVE garden work or yard work. But I have too much trouble getting up and down now. My digging days are over!
Oh! I am an avid gardener. I love getting my hands in the dirt, planting, dreaming and planning. I love providing for all the little critters. It is my creative outlet and where I go to find peace. Being in nature lifts my spirits. I had a heart dog and he had favourite spots. My husband does the heavy lifting and a woman helps with pruning at times, but I do most of it myself. It has been challenging to relearn ways to safely bend after 2 spinal fractures. I am sorry to hear your digging days are over, Mollyabigail, I hope you have somewhere to sit and enjoy nature!
We had an old damaged storage “barn” that my whole family just wanted to burn. It was built around 71 or 72 with Masonite siding for my daddy to store cow feed in. When we put our house on the other side of the property we rolled it in on old electric poles for storage. Fast forward about 36 years. I decided I wanted a potting shed. So we replaced siding with some free windows & plexiglass. People at work started picking on me calling it my pot shed. Told my family, so now they call it “Granna’s Pot Shed”😂😂😂. Ironically I’ve never even tried pot. I’ve been out there twice in the last 10 days & been stung by a wasp both times. . Texas is @110 lately.
A pot shed! 😂 Ouch! The indignity of 110 degrees, added to the indignity of being stung by wasps twice. I am sorry. This summer has been brutal, and we are not finished yet! High 90's for the next 10 days here south of Memphis.
It’s embarrassing. I found it very difficult to join this site and I almost gave up. I don’t want to have to call a number if I’m experiencing a problem. Signing back in isn’t fun either. I don’t have issues with other sites. If it wasn’t for you wonderful people I wouldn’t bother. I’ve only been a member a short time and have found information, encouragement, inspiration and humor from you all.
I must’ve tried every screen name I could think of. Frustrated about nothing working I angrily typed Wtfisup. Was shocked it was accepted. It isn’t a screen name I like but there is no way I’m going to poke bear for a different one now.
So…what the “funk” is up was born. The picture is of a beach wheelchair.
Hope you are all blessed with a good day or at least a manageable one. 🫧
I am glad to hear you say that, wtfisup. I, too, have found information, encouragement, inspiration and humor here. That initial shock of my diagnosis was .... well, shocking. But this group showed me there is still life after a diagnosis. I was, and am, so grateful for them!
I chose mine due to the fact that we have so many squirrels running around our house. Probably due to the fact that our neighbor feeds them everyday. The 1270 is the tail number of the last plane I was a crew chief on while in the military.
Fascinating! My youngest son is a commercial pilot. You must have some good stories!
Like most vets, we always have our fair share of stories. 😁
I used to be a math teacher, and I always loved calculus. Hence my user name Calcman.
Interesting! Wow, a math teacher! I sucked at the higher math levels. Wish you could have tutored me!
This is a great idea to hear from people about how they picked the name! Thank you. I was married to a man who lived in Italy for a couple of years and he suggested Amore. I was 55 then (now 62, looking at 63). So I got the name, not really very exciting. I wish I had done something with the number of children I have or something along those lines!
I like amore. It is a good name! So, how many children do you have? (Btw, I am also 62, looking at 63).
It’s a great age to be! I have 8 children, 5 sons and 3 daughters. I’m also blessed with 21 grandchildren! I’m grateful that my kids are all educated and successful in their various fields of work. They have picked good partners and are just good people. How about you? Do you have have children and grandchildren? And where do you live?
When you all get together, it's a house full, isn't it?! How nice! Two grown sons here, educated, stable & on their own. Two wonderful daughters in law. Zero grandchildren. Three grand cats and a grand dog. A grandchild would be great, but I keep waiting. North Mississippi here, about 75 miles south of Memphis.
Yes, it is a house full, but lots of fun! We don’t get together anymore because of the massive distance between everyone. Plus trying to arrange the schedules for things has been impossible it seems. The last time we were all together was in 2019 for the wedding of one of my twins. And we had so much fun! It’s so good to get to know more about you, and to realize that we are the same age! 🤗
When will you be 63? I have less than 3 months.
January, when is your birthday?
I'm 2 months older then! I will be 63 in early November. You were born in 1961 then. The 60's were a different world from the present, huh? How things change!
Oh, gosh, isn’t that the truth! I had 4 older brothers and I remember the hair styles they had and the music they introduced me to then. It was so fun to have them, three of them were much older than me. And our family had one of the first color televisions in our neighborhood. I remember when the Beatles were on the Ed Sullivan show and the neighborhood girls asked my dad if they could watch them on our television set! Such funny memories.
A type of heirloom tomato that I really love! LOL
That's original! Named after a tomato. I like it!
Mine is part initials and part career. tk is my first and middle initial, and I am an occupational therapist so my credentials that I use professionally are OTR/L
Nice to know! OT is a good field! I thought the Tko might be a boxing term! 😅
I tried Taz but it was used so I tried Tazmanian devil but it was to long so I settled for Tazmanian because it was what I already typed
Are you in Australia? I think the Tazmanian devils live there. Remember the cartoon where Taz would get a look at a female and say, "Tazmanian SHE devil!" We still laugh about that.
I have freckles on my face and when I was a child, I didn't like them at all. Until my cousin told me that freckles were kisses from God and that was it, I fell in love with them and now I think they are cute.
My favorite book as a young adult was "Mrs. Mike" by Benedict and Nancy Freedman. When I married a Mike, well, it was a no brainer. My email is similar but there was already someone using it and I always liked the number 9 (don't know why) so I went with it.
You and I have talked about that book. It was amazing to find someone who had heard of it! I just love it even though it is not politically correct now. I still cry when I read it. It’s so funny to do that, I mean I know what is coming next in the story, but I still cry! How are you doing and how is your husband?
I still, also, love it. I was at camp and it was on the bookshelves (for rest time).I'm doing okay. My husband had a CT scan on his chest and we haven't heard back. Probably all is okay since we didn't get a call right away. He was a smoker for many years so....
I was thinking of that book when hearing about the fire in Maui. I was thinking of her in that lake with that baby, ducking under the water while the area was on fire.
You and your family are good??
Now you both have me curious. I've put it on my ever-growing Amazon wish list, but you have to tell me why you cry. Do Mike or Mrs. Mike die in the end, or is it just because of normal things that happen during their lives? I try to avoid sad stories, although I love "Goodnight, Mr. Tom".
Now I need to read that book!
It has taken a while for this to percolate, but you got me thinking about a book I read once when I was a kid. I forgot the name of it. I do remember that the girl had pleurisy and had to move, I remember her being pulled on a sled, and her going back to "civilization" where a bunch of people got really upset about some burned toast. She told them off because she had seen a lot that was much worse (which I do not remember). Does the toast scene sound familiar?
I believe that is the same book!
That's great. I will have to read it again now that I know the title. Thanks.
I chose the name agate for a message board over 20 years ago. It was the name of one of my cats. The cat is long gone now but I've kept the name and use it on any MS forum or message board I join. I've floated around on a number of them over the years and wanted to be consistent.
Interesting! A pet name (like I did). Jimeka is not here, but she says her name is a late pet name too.
Mine is SUNSHINY12. For some reason when people meet me, they almost always call me SUNSHINE. I like it and allow it. There could be so many other things they could call me. lol 😂
Sweet! SunshinY. I used to be sunshiny, then I got old and grumpy. 😅
Mollyabigail, this was a great idea! Loved reading through these. Last year, procrastinator that I am, I almost signed up several times, but was stumped by a good name to use. I really wanted to join the group and thought a good support group would "help me up" figuratively. Then it hit me that I am probably not the only MSer who has uttered "help me up" in the literal sense a thousand times. And my user name was born. I still get a laugh every time I sign on and see it. Take care.
I am so glad your name is not based a particular fall you experienced. So glad you are here, Helpmeup.
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Fancy was the name òf the first registered Appaloosa horse that I bred. She was the prettiest leopard appaloosa that I ever saw. I walked around her mama to look at her and the first words out of my mouth were "my, she's fancy"! Well, you guessed it, the name stuck! She passed away about 15 years ago but my husband and I still use combinations of her name in screen names and passwords. The 59 is the year I was born. So there you have my screen name, Fancy59.
Can you post a picture of Fancy, the horse? I would love to see her.
Sure is interesting how everyone came up with theirs. I was a hairdresser & instructor/school owner. With all that hair is on your brain 24/7! Then after 15 + Years of MS rambling through my brain I really am hairbrained. My email has been hairbrain for about 25 years so I thought I would use the KISS method (Keep It Simple Sister) so hairbrain it is.
That's a hoot! And so interesting. You were an instructor. Wow! You should write a book, hairbrain! My mother was a beautician in the 1950's, before she had 3 daughters. Then, she was cutting our hair and doing those stinky "perms", as she called it. I hated "perms." Made you smell funny for a few weeks! 😂
As a new grandpa, my screen name came from that joy. I’m hoping to add to the 1x grandpa status. Come on kids what’s taking you all so long?
Congratulations! Wow, that must be joy! My boys are 37 and 39, married and no kids. I am waiting too! In God's time, I suppose! Thanks for the reply!
You just joined us! Welcome to the club no one wants to join!
Hi Mollyabigail, thanks for the welcome to the club. While new to this chat room, I’ve been a member of the “MS club” since 2004. I just happened upon this chat room when searching for others who were searching for answers when TEVA recommend we dispose of our Autoject 2 devices. Glad to find all you like souls.
It's a great group. We are international! I am in rural Mississippi, and know NOONE else with MS. So glad you are here! See you around!
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CalfeeChick! Calfee is the name of my Road Bike maker that built my custom Carbon Fiber bicycle. Chick just means I'm a cute Chick. Or I was when I was ordering my bike with Hubby's assistance.
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