Okay, it is not that amazing, but it is well worth thinking about. No Death Certificate will say died of ms or any form of ms. That is a fact. It will say cause of death pneumonia, myocardial infarction (heart attack) stroke, "YOU" get the picture. "YOU" and I will not die from ms. Complications possibly, but a Central Nervous System (CNS) illness will not kill us. I am hoping for death caused by doing something truly dumb, "he should have known better we told him not to, but he did anyway". I saw a movie about a quadriplegic paragliding on the weekend, good movie, I want to go like that. What fun, what a view. The impact bit hurts but "YOU" take the good with the bad.
I must have adventures, YOU" must have adventures. I was diagnosed at twenty-eight or twenty-nine years of age. I should live into my seventies according to the averages. That is forty-odd years with Relapsing-Remitting ms (RRms). That is far too long to sit in a dark corner weeping. "YOU and I must live. We must find adventures, create a purpose for getting out of bed or off the couch each day. I have my disabilities, there are things I can not do just like "YOU", BUT there are things we can do and we should strive to do therm Perhaps tomorrow they can not be done or we change our mind, but "YOU" need to keep finding yourself a goal. No matter how ridiculous it may seem to others or how often "YOU" fail. There is plenty of time to rest when "this body is six feet under dirt.
Until that time go out there and live the best life that "YOU" possibly can. Rest in your cold dark corner, but remember that it is no place to live.
What can "YOU" do and what do "YOU" need to start doing it? This is a doable disease, incurable, chronic, progressive but and it is a big BUT, totally liveable. So why do "YOU" not live it and live it really really well? There is nothing in this illness that can not be coped with once "YOU" decide to cope with it. It merely takes "YOU" making a choice to cope with it.
Royce (the ms writer)
make a choice for you, to live your best possible ms life
