This is your life. Not mine, certainly not anybody else’s. Just as a wild and crazy suggestion from way out in Left Field why do “YOU” not go out of your way to make it so good that “YOU” just burst with excitement every day when your eyes open? Okay, perhaps I am being a little extreme and it is within the rules to tone it down a little, but do “YOU” actually make an attempt to make your day to day life one worth living? Be honest with yourself, do “YOU”?
Of course “YOU” know me and what the next question I am going to ask is. WHY NOT? Sometimes I am just so obvious I scare myself
Relapsing Remitting ms (RRms) is a tricky and confusing condition. There is so much that can and might go wrong it is understandable to be overwhelmed. Do not be, educate yourself as much as “YOU” possibly can. Ignore the people that tell “YOU” that if “YOU” take XYZ or if “YOU do XYZ that “YOU” will be cured. Also ignore the ones that say I did XYZ and I am cured. Ask for before and after Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) and if they can not produce them they are lying. It is called Relapsing Remitting ms for a reason. It comes and goes, that is the nature of the illness. “YOU” may just have seen somebody on a good day, believe me that is not a cure.
Sit in your comfy chair and say to yourself, this is my lot in this life how can I make it better? No not better good, really good. A life that I can be proud to have lived, a life that I am sad to see go. Just because we have this chronic incurable condition does not mean that we have to have a bad or unhappy life. Yes, without a doubt there are and will be moments when “YOU” ask yourself can I really do this, am I Homo Sapien enough? That is man enough, but as most ms people are women I made it gender neutral. Rest assured I probably will never do that again.
Seriously, look and find your reason for making your life great. Listening to the different birds again this morning
is something enjoyable. I think I have heard five different ones over the last few days. I even heard ducks which is really good. I might go over to the park and look in the pond. I am sure they are floating there. Remarkable I am fifty and I very rarely noticed these things and they happen every year. This year I notice and they are making my present very pleasant indeed. I would bet that if “YOU” put aside your pain for a moment “YOU” very well might see beauty and wonder and life just for yourself.
Just an off the cuff question. Do “YOU” have a daily theme song? Mine is Bob Marley, 3 little birds. Find one for yourself, listen to it everyday, and do not worry just live your best life. At ninety on your death bed tell the nurse and your loved ones that “YOU” had a really good life and be honest about it.
Royce
So far it is looking good only forty more years to go
