783. Being Diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis at 29 | Connecting Clip of the Week

The Paul Tripp Podcast

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🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Connecting Clip of the Week, Paul Tripp Ministries’ Executive Director Ben Fallon shares the story of being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis at the age of 29 and how his life has changed since then.

To hear more of this conversation with Ben Fallon, check out The Connecting Podcast Episode 038.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and best-selling author Paul David Tripp connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.
0:13.0	In this week's Connecting clip of the week, Paul Tripp Ministries executive director, Ben Fallon, shares the story of being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at the age of
0:21.9	29 and how his life has changed since then. To hear more of this conversation with Ben Fallon,
0:27.2	check out the Connecting Podcast, episode 38, wherever you listen to podcasts. You can also watch the video
0:32.3	on Paul Tripp's YouTube channel or Facebook page. Here's Paul with Ben Fowler.
0:47.1	I want to get you to talk about one of the most significant things in your life.
0:57.6	After you guys got settled there and we really got into sort of the rhythm of of ministry together and we were you we were beginning to build a team you started having some physical symptoms
1:08.2	talk about that.
1:11.0	Yeah, so I am diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
1:14.8	I've been diagnosed with that for six years now.
1:19.4	And multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune disease, neurological degenerative condition.
1:26.9	And they believe that you have a marker on your DNA code or
1:32.9	on your genetic code and it lies there dormant and then something typically environmental issues
1:41.5	will trigger it and will activate it. And so you either have the marker or you don't have
1:49.3	it. And something will cause it to flare and activate it. And then you now suddenly have this disease.
1:57.2	So talk about your early symptoms, what you began experiencing? Yeah.
2:01.6	So what my wife and I are convinced, I think I've told you this, maybe I haven't, but I think
2:07.6	my wife and I are convinced that that Faith Playbook event with the Philadelphia Eagles, they had
2:14.1	just come off of the Super Bowl in 2018. You had started to build a relationship
2:20.6	with a handful of the Philadelphia Eagles players. We were out to dinner one night and we saw a couple
2:28.5	of the Philadelphia Eagles players praying at dinner across, at the table across from us. And and we thought let's get them a couple of
2:37.1	copies of your books and so through a pastor who was a brother of one of the players we got their
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