Author & Founder Lorna Moorhead

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October 2006
Aidan is now two years old! Abigail is almost 11 months and already standing (for a few seconds before she plops down!) Stephan is 11 yrs old and in junior high! My goodness how time flies. The rumors are true we are expecting our fourth and final baby! This time we have a completely different OB practice following me and I am seeing a perinatologist next week. We do not want a recap of Abby's premature birth.

Things are very crazy here at home, as usual, and I am not finding too much free time to write. Can't write when the kids go to bed because I am so exhausted these days I usually follow only 30 minutes after. So much for a love life!
Abigail Aidan Stephan Lorna and Abby!

June 2006
Currently I am working on Book three of the MS series, chasing a toddler and a cruising baby, and trying to not go insane with too many projects. My most recent blog was a Ma'am Hood story: Goddess of the Shoes

Aidan is 20 months, Abby 6 months and Stephan is getting closer to age 11. Life in the Moorhead home is chaotic at best and always full of surprises!

Aidan missed the ball and landed in the hedges, he was not hurt, in fact bounced right back up, but not before I got this great shot with his leg sticking out.

Abby loves our trips to the front lawn where she can practice her crawling on a softy fuzzy blanket.

Stephan practiced the art of taking family photos. Trying to get Abby to focus on me and not her brother was a bit difficult.

Got a great shot of Abby and Stephan (Aidan was napping.)

April 2006

Some Easter pictures of Lorna and family!

As you can see ,it was not easy to get  "family shot." (But then we switched kids and gave Aidan some chocolate.)

Aidan, now 19 months, has his first egg hunt inside. (It was raining.)

Abby (now 5 months) particularly enjoyed the shiny eggs!

March 2006

Some pictures of Lorna and Abby taken in February at the UC Davis MIND institute where they are part of a study. The professional photographer was generous enough to let Lorna have some copies of his contact sheets!

New Year: Lorna's blog. Follow her through a new year.

Samples: "Sleep deprivation does wonders for the economy. Our daughter has a $251 bed. It's made of undyed cotton and is promoted by Dr. Sears. It is supposed to be a miracle cure for babies who won't sleep, preemies, and babies with reflux. So that would be Abby, Abby, and Abby. " More

"The other day as I was buying groceries, I happened to strike up a cordial conversation with the bag boy. I wasn't flirting, he was practically a kid, but I was being witty. And charming. At least I thought so. It was one of those good days when you feel good and look good. And then it happened. "Would you like help out ma'am?" Read more
 

December 2005

Abigail Jean came home December 14 at 6lbs 2oz. She continues to flourish and we are blessed to have her. We look forward to a happy New Year with her finally in our family's arms!

November 2005
(You can see from the size of Mark's hands, framing the photo, how tiny Abigail is.)

Abigail Jean was born on Thanksgiving November 24 weighing 5 lbs, 1oz. She was premature and is currently residing in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of the local hospital. Lorna is back home and spending much of her days trekking to the NICU to visit Abby. Abigail has experienced difficulty with her immature lungs but is currently doing better and beginning to breast feed. She now weighs 4lbs 14 oz, but will continue to grow as she eats. We do not know when Abigail will be coming home but we hope to have her home by Christmas.

October 2005 Lorna is 7 1/2 months pregnant with a baby girl. She continues to struggle with gestational diabetes but so far has controlled it with diet alone, no insulin. It is anticipated that as her pregnancy continues, the diabetes will require insulin to stay under control. Baby Abigail is growing steadily and was last estimated to be 3lbs, 7 oz and right on track for a due date of December 25th! Aidan is walking!! He took his first steps at the previous house but once the family moved, and he had more space, he took off!

The family moved into a new 3br/3ba two story house and are enjoying the extra room! Stephan is thrilled to no longer be sharing a bedroom with his baby brother, Aidan, while Lorna is thrilled to have her own bathroom! The neighborhood is excellent, filled with many families, and a park is within walking distance! Everyone looks forward to a fun-filled Halloween in the new house!

September 2005

Aidan is now a year old! Can a year have already passed? Lorna is 6 months pregnant and wondering how crazy life is going to be trying to keep up with two children who are only 15 months apart in age!

June 2005 Lorna is 3 months pregnant with her third child! Aidan is 9 months old and already pulling himself up to a standing position. Walking is not far behind! Lorna predicts crazy days ahead with two children 15 months apart! Although during her last pregnancy, she experienced no MS symptoms, Lorna is currently battling with numbness in her left side which started with a hand injury but now is creeping throughout her left side. Please keep her in your thoughts.

April 2005 Lorna finished her second book Phone in the Fridge: Five Years with Multiple Sclerosis and it is slated for release this Fall. Unfortunately after such hard work Lorna's right side went numb and she has been recouping from the relapse.

February 2005

Aidan is four months old! While Aidan is thriving and finally over colic, Lorna has not been doing well. She has experienced two relapses since Aidan's birth and this has limited her ability to work at the computer on MS MOMS. (And raise two kids.) We are currently in desperate need of people willing to help with the website to keep MS MOMS going. If you know of anyone with website running abilities who would like to help out a small organization, please have them contact MS MOMS! Thank you for your patience and we all hope Lorna comes back very soon.

Aidan Angus Moorhead born 2:45am Tuesday September 28, 2004! 7lbs, 9 ozs. 19 1/2 inches. (Looks just like his dad.)

September 2004. The picture to the left shows Lorna at the end of July at 7 months. Currently she is 35 weeks and is bedding down for the homestretch into October. (This also explains her recent disappearance.) Much to her dismay she was diagnosed with gestational diabetes (around 5% of pregnant women develop gestational diabetes) and is now on a strict diet. She checks her blood four times a day and reported that her blood sugar levels are going down. She also reports "this sucks", in her usual sassy manner.  If you wish to contact her please send an email to MS MOMS

Update, June 2004: So far this year Lorna has become pregnant, begun work on a second book , AND helped her husband , Mark, develop a nonprofit promotion company (Rusty Sword Productions)!! Does this woman ever stop? (Can someone say obsessive project starting?) 

Lorna is currently 6 months pregnant with a BIG boy, to be named Aidan. Throughout this pregnancy Lorna has opted to be drug free and -thankfully-has only experienced fatigue and nerve pain, MS-wise. Most other symptoms have been mild or in complete remission. "This is the first time in 5 years that I have felt somewhat like the old me, before my diagnosis." Stephan, her special needs son, is 8 and looks forward to having a baby brother. Due date: October 17, 2004

Lorna also looks forward to tackling some work at MS MOMS once again and moving the organization further along the path it was headed last October when MS MOMS co-sponsored a Halloween party with the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

About Lorna:

   Try as she might to avoid it, Lorna always comes back to writing. When she was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis at 23, Lorna felt her world was falling apart. However, with an amazing amount of time on her hands, she decided it was not time to lay down, but time to kick butt. Using her writing to vent her own emotions and observations about MS, she has made a strong link to others with her condition.

   Finding many books and articles about MS to be sometimes depressing, scary, and utterly vague, Lorna decided to write about MS in a way that everyone would be able to understand and even laugh at. She wanted to not only try to embrace the MS community but to tickle them too!

   When Lorna found that services and for women and parents with MS seemed lacking, she formed her own non-profit organization, MS MOMS. The MS MOMS web site is a place for women and parents like herself, to vent, cry, love and laugh when this sometimes invisible disease leaves them feeling that they have no-one else to share with.

   Now three years later, Lorna has her first Multiple Sclerosis book out! Coffee in the Cereal: the First Year with Multiple Sclerosis is already receiving rave reviews from Lorna's fans world wide. The foreword was generously written by fellow MS author Judith Lynn Nichols of Women Living with Multiple Sclerosis & Living Beyond Multiple Sclerosis : A Woman's Guide.  

    Lorna's MS articles have been displayed on such health websites such as  www.healingwell.com and Ask Noah. More articles have been published with Vitality Magazine, Rest Ministries and Issue #32 of the MSXpress an online newsletter from the MSWatch website. 

    Lorna has  previously been featured by New Mobility magazine as a health columnist in which "quirky humor serves her well." . New Mobility also reviewed the MS MOMS site saying that it was "one of the few Web sites geared toward people who've had MS for quite awhile.

    Lorna and MS MOMS were featured in her local newspaper, the Sacramento Bee, in August 2000. To read this article click here. 

    Lorna is now 30 and lives in Sacramento, CA with her partner, Mark and children Stephan, Aidan, and Abigail. She has been diagnosed with MS for 7 years.

Every once in awhile Lorna adds another article to her ongoing MS rants at MS MINDS. However, she isn't all that regular. (Like the rest of us.) To join Lorna's list of readers, sign up below!