We all are told not very positive things all the time.Go to the really nice doctor and they say , well good news “YOU “ have not gotten worse, “MUCH” Sorry, I would like to hear one day. Oh “YOU” have gotten better in this area and in that area. Wishful thinking, that will never happen.
With that in mind I go out of my way to produce positive results for myself and I highly recommend “YOU” do as well. My favorite is the gym. I can see hard numbers and can see gains in those numbers. By no means do I look like like Arnie, or the Rock but it is an accomplishment to move the weight higher, those numbers increase. What I never thought I could do, what people said was my limit I far exceed these days. Yes, without a doubt it took a number of years, I have a number of years and so do you. I may suffer a little at first, I may stagger out of the gym, but I did that. Not Relapsing Remitting ms (RRms), it was ALL me, my ego my, stupidity, my silliness. All me, all me and with this confusing frustrating illness wrecking havoc on my body I can control these aches and pains, and I feel good about that. That is not to say I stupidly overheat myself and move weight bars that can tip and hurt me. I keep myself as cool as I can, I learn what is safe to do and how to do it, then exceed my own expectations. “YOU” know when the muscles aches stop and after I have rested I feel good. I did something that others said I could not do. I did something that I said I could not do. I did and I achieved and let me assure “YOU that one year ten years twenty years with RRms it feels really good to do something strong. I and “YOU” are not as weak and feeble as we think. Each kilo (pound) moved puts me a little further from the dark corner of despair and the endless tears. If I can move that weight I bet there are other things that I can do as well. That is a good piece of treasure to have in my ms success vault. On the dark lonely n nights when ms tries to break me I will remember. I did this I van cope with this night the strength and resilience is within me. All because I exercised and achieved. Who would have thought?
We all have a chronic incurable illness, but there is never a reason to be weak. Give yourself and take every opportunity to be the strong person that “YOU” are. We have this disease because we can cope with it. We can survive and live with it and because we can thrive with it.
Royce
Do that, thrive with your ms, today and all your many many tomorrows
