Everyday is a challenge and this is “NOT” a bad thing on the contrary it is a very good thing, It means that “YOU” are still alive. There are all sorts of challenges be they physical, emotional, interactions with your loved ones and others. Really unexpected ones like there being only one stall in a bathroom (restroom) and “YOU” having bowel issues as usual. Of course “YOU” have your protective underwear on, but those shorts are better off getting disposed of. Important lesson here, always have plastic bags that “YOU” can use to dispose of your shorts or underwear in. Best never to be caught unprepared. Those boy scouts do have a good motto. Be prepared. This may never happen to “YOU”, but would “YOU” rather be prepared than caught unprepared.
A lot of our living with this chronic incurable condition is being prepared for the unexpected, and adapting to a constantly changing life. As I have said and we all know, or will soon find out. ms in all its forms is constantly changing. This we expect and anticipate and we survive. It is not an unliveable or impossible condition, but it is one that constantly asks even demands that “YOU as a person with ms pay attention. Pay attention to everything. Your body, your environment and yourself. Very importantly yourself, Push yourself, drive yourself as much as “YOU” can or want to. Ask yourself to do things that “YOU” think “YOU can not do. Whenever others say no “YOU” should not even try “YOU” will fail. Failure for us is not bad. Failure means that “YOU” tried and that is a very good thing. Better to have tried and failed than never to have even tried, merely to wish one day that “YOU” had.
Our lives used to be those of success, failure was to be avoided. The better “YOU” did the more “YOU” were rewarded. Our lives are different now. It does not matter if “YOU” are a newbie (newly diagnosed) or “YOU” are an old hand (got to think of a better name) Embrace failure, accept it and try to work around it, but if it, failure happens shrug your shoulders and try again tomorrow, or maybe even never. It is okay, we are allowed to never try again if that is what we decide. If “YOU” need it I give “YOU” permission, not that that means much. Failure, is today an opportunity to find a new way to do something. Great thinking exercise what is a new way to do things that “YOU” want to do.
Everyday may be a challenge, but it is a challenge that “YOU” can accept and move through. This is only Relapsing Remitting ms (RRms). A nuisance and an inconvenience but nothing that should ever stop us or hold us back. Slow us maybe, but stop us NEVER. This is our RRms life and we re going to live it, and live it well.
Royce
each day a new challenge it never ends and that is good
