Living with Multiple Sclerosis
Living with Multiple Sclerosis
Every day is a new day with all sorts of possibilities. But, today might also be a day that you need to take some time, compose and prepare yourself to fight another day. MS is not an all-day, everyday affair. Yes, it’s something I have to live with and some days it’s more aggressive than others but, like breathing, I don’t have to think about it all the time, in fact, I’d rather not!
I came across the MSWarriors hashtag on Twitter and I was, at first, reluctant to identify myself with it, partly because I was still in a certain amount of denial about the diagnosis and partly because I didn’t want to be ‘that person’. You know: the one that goes on and on about something to the exclusion of everything else, as though I was the first and only, the worst afflicted, etc, etc.
Being an #MSWarrior means something different to me today though. It’s about me taking back my life, exploiting my strengths, acknowledging my weaknesses and, through all of the heartache, pain and struggle, allowing myself to enjoy the good days, the victories, the milestones not because they are spectacular feats of endurance or speed or ability but because, against all the odds, I refuse to bow my head to this interloper, I refuse to be beaten down without getting back up and because there are people out there, with the same dastardly disease, doing incredible and spectacular things with their lives and I want to be a part of that…I want my story to be just as inspiring so that I can look back on my life one day and say I did the best I could…regardless!
Stand up, take courage and do it!
Make it to another day!
Doctors call them lesions. I say they’re bright ideas…
The diagnosis of MS is not the end of the world…it’s simply a new beginning.
Don’t pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
We are so AWESOME even our own immune systems can’t get enough of us…
Be kind to yourself!
Always, be kind to yourself! If it doesn’t get done today, tomorrow is another day!