Life Interrupted

Wishing you and your family the best. Yeah, this disease stinks, but if you can remind yourself to recognize the things with which we have been blessed even while we live  and deal with MS and it's uncertainties, like me I think most everyone will find that living with this disease on a daily basis is like playing a game. Each one of us with MS is playing the same game. Everyone's version of the game is the same but different.

The obstacles, rules and awards are always changing during the game. Obstacles can range from a plethora of visual impairments, numbness, weakness, paralysis, tremors and more. The rules though always changing are things like this afternoon you have to rest, you must avoid the mid-day heat and sun or maybe today you can only walk 25 feet before your right leg starts dragging. Then there are the awards. Yes, I said awards__humbly accept the days you wake up with abilities that were gone the day before. Yesterday my eyes were shaking___today they are not, yesterdaymy fingers were so fatigued I was unable to raise a glass of water to my lips___yet, today I was able to stretch and work out or you could lift your grandson from his crib. The most important thing is that you choose whether to play with a smile or a frown. Either way, the misery of MS will be there, but you don't have to add to the misery by being miserable. After all, if your bowl of soup is too hot you don't add boiling water to cool it off, do you? It's a game and it's one you can win.