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●Your four-year-old is better than you in memory games.

●You face-plant into the floor and only after wards you think, “I’m falling!”

●You’re on the phone with a dear friend and can’t remember who the heck she is.

●You pay the phone bill twice because you can’t remember that you paid it the first time.

●You forget to pay the electric bill and your power gets turned off.

●You realize you sent the electric bill payment to the phone company.

●You call someone and by the time they answer the phone, you forgot who you called.

●You try to grease a skillet with “409″ instead of “Pam.”

●The bottoms of your feet are numb and you realize you’ve been walking around without shoes on because you can’t tell the difference.

●You attempt to bake cookies, but you use wax paper instead of parchment until your cookies start to look like candles in the oven. Worst of all you have to ce “Charades” because you just can’t remember the words.

●You hold a nail with one hand and a hammer with another. But by the timeall your mom to ask if you are able to cook in the oven with wax paper. She thinks you’ve lost your mind because you’ve been baking cookies on parchment paper for years!

●You dice your fingers while washing knives in the sink. The water turns red and you haven’t a clue why.

●It’s easier to ust paper. Even worse, you can’t determine what’s wrong you’re ready to finally swing the hammer, you’ve dropped the darn nail…again.

●You call your daughter and ask for directions and realize you’ve already arrived at the location in question.

●You attempt to move your index finger and your pinky finger moves instead.

●You wash your hair with conditioner and THEN wash it with shampoo.

●You try to get your key into the door to your apartment. You jam and slam and swear. Your neighbor opens the door from the inside to help you and you realize you’re breaking into the wrong place.

●You go to the store, turn around and realize you’re lost. You have to call your 16-year-old to come and find you. (Or you call your husband’s cell phone just to hear it ringing like a homing device)

●You have a college education, but when your doctor asks you to spell a simple, four-letter word, you’re speechless. Of course, you can easily shout out a four-letter word in reply. (Not necessarily the same one the doctor wanted to hear).

●You invite your guests to sit on the cake while you serve the couch.

●Your mom seeks out advice about Social Security from YOU.

●Buttons are useless, zippers are worse, so your whole wardrobe turns into elastic waists or Velcro.

●You have become jealous of how few times pregnant women go to the bathroom.

●You use body soap instead of body lotion and can’t figure out why it won’t rub in.

●You map out everywhere you go based on how many public restrooms are along the way.

●You have to ask the dog where his leash is.

●You fail a test for intoxication and you haven’t had a drink. YOU try to walk a straight line with MS!

●Your 80-year-old mom jumps up from her seat and offers it to you.

●You point your keyless car entry button at the front door of your home and wonder why the door isn’t beeping.

●Your Neuro asks you to look to the right and instead you look to the left. Or worse, you move your whole head instead of just your eyes.

●You start to take your meds and can’t remember if you already took them. So you hunt to find the pamphlet that comes with the prescription so you know what to expect if you accidentally overdose.

●You do exactly what the instructions on the shampoo bottle read: “Wash, rinse, repeat”. But, you only do it because you can’t remember what parts you have already done.

●You go to work with one shaved leg because you forgot to shave the other.

The next morning, you decide to shave the other leg to play catch-up only to find out that you re-shaved the same one again.

●You sleep in your work clothes because you’re just too darn tired to change into PJ’s and then back into work clothes the next morning.

●Your 70-year-old father offers to let you borrow the cane he used after knee surgery, because it looks like you need it more than him.

●Your child’s teacher corrects YOUR spelling in a note to her.

●You get excited when the weatherman says to expect “unseasonably cool weather”.

●You show up to your job from four years ago, walk in the front door, and only then realize that you’ve shown up at the wrong employer.

●And one of the best ways you know you have M.S. is when your teenager thanks YOU for doing some of the cooking and cleaning!

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RoyceNewton profile image
RoyceNewton

funny funny funny chuckled the whole way through, even lived one or two

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Chameleon3 in reply to RoyceNewton

Yeah, me too.!!! Ha ha

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Fancy1959

Chameleon3, it's Fancy1959. I smiled from ear-to-ear when I read your post! I enjoyed your post so much! I haven't gotten that bad yet but some of your episodes hit very close to home on fortunately! LOL! Thank you for sharing. Fancy.🤣😁🤗😃

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Chameleon3 in reply to Fancy1959

I know, right?? I don't tell me people though. They see enough as I walk among them like I am 6 tequila shots towards a very bad hangover!! :)

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ssdw1958

Oh my goodness I want to thank you for I needed a real good ok great laugh 😆 I have to say so far I’ve only had done three of those. But also I told my sister once I would for get to do one of those and she told me Sandra you can’t blame all of those on MS and I said why and she said it’s also the age thing I was not happy with that. You need to write a book 📖 or become a comedian and go on the road you can make some real good money LOL thank you so much.

P.S. I needed to find a to find a tissue I was laughing 😂 so hard I couldn’t see.

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Chameleon3 in reply to ssdw1958

Thank you. I have written a book about 8 yrs ago, it was published. It is called "Stranger Than Fiction: A Fathers Last Words to His Sons." I think it was a best seller for several weeks. I took no royalties. They all went to St. Judes hospital for children and the Ronald McDonald House.

Laughter is the best medicine.....well, unless you are trying to treat diarrhea!

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ssdw1958 in reply to Chameleon3

You are good😊again I want to thank you for the laugh 🤭

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RoseySawyer

Love it!!! 😊 You made me smile. But my teenager still expects me to clean after her every move and being a mom, I still do. 😊❤🌷

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erash

So true and thanks for the lol 😂

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pamgarner

we all probably could add to the list! Thanks for the laugh!

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Amore55

I especially liked the leg shaving part. I don’t know how many of you have this problem. Since my legs are numb, if I cut my legs shaving I don’t realize it. I take a lot of aspirin and so when I get out of the tub, it looks like there has been a massacre from all my blood! Very creepy. Kelly

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Midgey_Midge06 in reply to Amore55

I got that flawless legs thing so i dont have to shave in the shower any more. Between getting tired, the cutting myself, and just plain forgetting - its a life saver

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Morllyn

I was reading this and laughing and my husband was just staring at me like I was crazy! 😂😝

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Midgey_Midge06

That was awesome! So done the whole “cant remember what part of the shampoo/conditioner thing” i have done in the shower so just start over 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Mertelle

Really liked your "you know when" I was able to relate to many of them! 😂😁😆😅

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lbenmaor

Very Funny!!

Leslie

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KC0808

I feel like I should pay you for this feel good medication - laughter :)

Damn I feel 100% better emotionally then I did a couple hours ago. So again I thank you. You have no idea how much I needed this.

Take Care of You

You just took good care of me

KC

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Chameleon3 in reply to KC0808

Believe me, hearing that makes my heart smile. If you tell a single soul I said that, I will hunt you down!! I am a US Marshall and have a rep for being a major pain in the ass. LOL

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KC0808 in reply to Chameleon3

Wow we have something else in common besides MS. I've been told I can be a pain in the ass too...:)

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bxrmom

Thanks for sharing this Chameleon3 I have done a few of these more than once lol Smiled and giggled all the way through ;)

Jessie

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kycmary

thanks for the laughs, and those are true!!

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