Yes, "YOU" my dear ms Sister and Brother have Relapsing-Remitting ms (RRms) now. "You most certainly won't die from it. Death certificates do not say she died of ms, complications, yes, but RRms NO. So, my first bit of advice, CRY and cry long and hard because everything "YOU" once knew and dreamed of is going to change. Some faster than others. My career ambitions as a commercial airline pilot died as the Doctor said, "YOU" have RRms. Not real cool but these things happen. I do not believe I was ever promised a career as a pilot, and I am betting "YOU" were not promised a career either. We will not talk about marriages. In sickness or in health are not what they used to be.
"YOU" have entered the RRms zone. "YOU" can and should expect things to change, a lot. "YOU" may not even recognize yourself in a year let alone ten years time. This condition is not your fault. It is nobodies fault. It just IS. It will take "YOU" a little while to get that, but eventually "YOU" will. What "YOU" do next is up to "YOU". Do nothing and sit in that cold dark corner crying and the bad things that may happen "YOU" can rest assured that "YOU" are to blame. Nobody else but "YOU", let that sink in. Neither "YOU" nor I can ever make our RRms leave us. It is ours for "LIFE". It has been with me twenty-plus years so far, and I expect another twenty. There is a young man around here that was diagnosed (Dx'd) as a teenager let that sink in how long he will have his RRms. It is certainly true, how we got it, why we have it, how to stop it nobody knows. BUT and it is a huge BUT, how we choose to live with it what we do next and every single moment after that is our choice. We get a say in what happens next.
Go to YOUTUBE and look for a Dr Aaron Boster of the Ohio ms Clinic and watch what he says newly diagnosed (NEWBIES) should do. Do your research get educated and live a great life with your very own RRms.
RRms is your condition, each of us is a little different. My choices may not work for "YOU", and yours probably will not work for me. What will work,is wiping away the tears, taking that first step on your very long ms journey. Start by wiping away that tear, pulling your shoulders back, looking straight ahead and Left, then Right then Left again.
RRms is a very doable condition it will just look a whole lot different than what "YOU" ever expected. There is no preparation time, this is it. "YOU" like me have RRms now. Expect changes, bad days even worse nights, but push on. Expect great and accept really good. This is our life and make the best of it that "YOU" can. Somebody might be watching. Who knows.
Royce (the ms writer)
I hope I am doing my ms good, are you?
Do you ever get to the point of accepting your condition?.
