“ MS Madness! A ‘Giggle More, Cry Less’ Story of Multiple Sclerosis combines defiance with humor, the secret weapon of the sick.

See what Richard M.Cohen, the NY Times Best Selling author of Blindsided and Strong at the Broken Places has to say. MS Madness! A “Giggle More, Cry Less” Story of Multiple Sclerosis is a memoir detailing the months before my diagnosis and the year after I discovered there was a reason for my craziness and perceived hypochondria. Yvonne enjoys writing, laughing, and resting.You can also request MS Madness! at your local bookstore where you can browse other books and support businesses in your community! More local bookstores to follow… Since finishing MS Madness! A “Giggle More, Cry Less” Story of Multiple Sclerosis, she has started presenting programs designed to help others use humor to help cope with Yvonne also writes a weekly blog on the website that uses a giggle stick to beat up on MS.

Her work has appeared on, and in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Finding My Faith and Something On Our Minds, Volumes 1 and 2. When MS threatened to turn her into a lunatic, she started writing more frequently and quickly discovered that writing about the insanity that is MS was helping to keep her sane. Little did she know it was the beginning of a writing career. Two years before Yvonne’s diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, a relative volunteered her to write an article for a local newspaper. Later on she worked as a waitress, sales clerk, library assistant, victim’s advocate, and at the front desk of a doctor’s

Yvonne deSousa has worked as a street sweeper, a shell seller, a babysitter, a candy peddler, and a guest house manager, all before the age of sixteen. MS Madness makes us realize that with a sense of humor, we can survive anything. Life with multiple sclerosis can be daunting, but Yvonne shares her giggles at the bizarre world she has unwittingly entered and the new perspectives it has given her on life. MS Madness will make you laugh while learning the real story of what MS, a disease that affects 400,000 Americans daily, can do to a perfectly normal person. Throughout her MS journey, Yvonne learned how to use humor to find acceptance in her diagnosis, and how to smile in the face of a debilitating chronic illness. What followed was a year of MS-adventures: 'accidentally' kicking an officious male doctor in the crotch, becoming an undercover agent to pay for medication made from Chinese hamster ovary cells, discovering the amazing effects of legal speed, and battling her arch-nemesis, the dreaded food group: vegetables. Yvonne deSousa's diagnosis of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis came with an insightful declaration from a new doctor ('MS sucks') and a brother's helpful advice ('You could totally get one of those handicapped parking plates now').

MS Madness by Yvonne deSousa