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One of the best ways to deal with Issues is with humor. So, on a lighter side:

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You know you have MS when:

●Your four-year-old is better than you in memory games.

●You face-plant into the floor and only after wards you think, “I’m falling!”

●You’re on the phone with a dear friend and can’t remember who the heck she is.

●You pay the phone bill twice because you can’t remember that you paid it the first time.

●You forget to pay the electric bill and your power gets turned off.

●You realize you sent the electric bill payment to the phone company.

●You call someone and by the time they answer the phone, you forgot who you called.

●You try to grease a skillet with “409″ instead of “Pam.”

●The bottoms of your feet are numb and you realize you’ve been walking around without shoes on because you can’t tell the difference.

●You attempt to bake cookies, but you use wax paper instead of parchment until your cookies start to look like candles in the oven. You call your mom to ask if you are able to cook in the oven with wax paper. She thinks you’ve lost your mind because you’ve been baking cookies on parchment paper for years!

●You hold a nail with one hand and a hammer with another. But by the time

●You dice your fingers while washing knives in the sink. The water turns red and you haven’t a clue why.

● Even worse, you can’t determine what’s wrong you’re ready to finally swing the hammer, you’ve dropped the darn nail…again.

●You call your daughter and ask for directions and realize you’ve already arrived at the location in question.

●You attempt to move your index finger and your pinky finger moves instead.

●You wash your hair with conditioner and THEN wash it with shampoo.

●You try to get your key into the door to your apartment. You jam and slam and swear. Your neighbor opens the door from the inside to help you and you realize you’re breaking into the wrong place.

●You go to the store, turn around and realize you’re lost. You have to call your 16-year-old to come and find you. (Or you call your husband’s cell phone just to hear it ringing like a homing device)

●You have a college education, but when your doctor asks you to spell a simple, four-letter word, you’re speechless. Of course, you can easily shout out a four-letter word in reply. (Not necessarily the same one the doctor wanted to hear).

●You invite your guests to sit on the cake while you serve the couch.

●Your mom seeks out advice about Social Security from YOU.

●Buttons are useless, zippers are worse, so your whole wardrobe turns into elastic waists or Velcro.

●You have become jealous of how few times pregnant women go to the bathroom.

●You use body soap instead of body lotion and can’t figure out why it won’t rub in.

●You map out everywhere you go based on how many public restrooms are along the way.

●You have to ask the dog where his leash is.

●You fail a test for intoxication and you haven’t had a drink. YOU try to walk a straight line with MS!

●Your 80-year-old mom jumps up from her seat and offers it to you.

●You point your keyless car entry button at the front door of your home and wonder why the door isn’t beeping.

●Your Neuro asks you to look to the right and instead you look to the left. Or worse, you move your whole head instead of just your eyes.

●You start to take your meds and can’t remember if you already took them. So you hunt to find the pamphlet that comes with the prescription so you know what to expect if you accidentally overdose.

●You do exactly what the instructions on the shampoo bottle read: “Wash, rinse, repeat”. But, you only do it because you can’t remember what parts you have already done.

●You go to work with one shaved leg because you forgot to shave the other.

The next morning, you decide to shave the other leg to play catch-up only to find out that you re-shaved the same one again.

●You sleep in your work clothes because you’re just too darn tired to change into PJ’s and then back into work clothes the next morning.

●Your 70-year-old father offers to let you borrow the cane he used after knee surgery, because it looks like you need it more than him.

●Your child’s teacher corrects YOUR spelling in a note to her.

●You get excited when the weatherman says to expect “unseasonably cool weather”.

●You show up to your job from four years ago, walk in the front door, and only then realize that you’ve shown up at the wrong employer.

●And one of the best ways you know you have M.S. is when your teenager thanks YOU for doing some of the cooking and cleaning!

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carolek572CommunityAmbassador

Oh my goodness, TexasLawman , what an exhaustive list, and a FANTASTICALLY FUNNY photo! You made my day with all this silliness! Thank you :-D

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Jesmcd2CommunityAmbassador

Do you shave your legs to TexasLawman ?🤔 Just wondering!🤣😂 And don't judge me if I look left!🙈🤣 I really do!😂🤗💕⛄

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TexasLawman in reply toJesmcd2

Only on the third Thursday of the month.

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Jesmcd2CommunityAmbassador in reply toTexasLawman

You might want to try more often TexasLawman I hear they are getting a little hairy by then!🙈🤣😭🤗💕⛄

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TexasLawman in reply toJesmcd2

Actually with a Native American grandfather, I have really light hair on my body.

jimeka profile image
jimeka

I laughed til I cried. Then I said to myself, what am I laughing at, it’s true, it happens. We could all become comedians, love the photo, Blessings Jimeka 😂

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DM0329

Thanks for sharing! Love the post and especially the pic! Happy Holidays! :) :) :)

greaterexp profile image
greaterexp

Humor is the best! Thanks for sharing with us!

leking1 profile image
leking1

Wonderful! I love, and live, every one of them! Laughter truly is the best medicine, but now I have to go put on dry clothes because I laughed so hard...well, you know how it is! You are doing great, Aaron!

Merry Christmas, Linda

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TexasLawman in reply toleking1

Sorry, Linda. Hahs

Peruzzot profile image
Peruzzot

I've done several of those things at least a few times!😂🤣😂🤣😂

Midgey_Midge06 profile image
Midgey_Midge06 in reply toPeruzzot

Me too!! 🤣🤣

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RoseySawyer in reply toPeruzzot

Me three! 😂🤣🤗☺️♥️🌹

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Texandyroe

Oh, my goodness, so very many of those are me! One you didn’t hit...as your family is leaving the house, you hand your daughter-in-law her purse - except it’s your purse and nothing like the one she is already carrying. Or the time she texted me that she was on her way (to pick up her daughter from us after she got off work as she does every day) and I replied to her “For what?” After she got to the house, and we all laughed at my blooper, I assured her that the number to the funny farm is on speed dial on my phone. You’re right - humor is a necessity in our lives.

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Peruzzot

Just to add one more...

You lock your car doors but 2 minutes later you can't remember if you locked it or not so you go back and lock it again and then go back and do it again 2 minutes later.

Midgey_Midge06 profile image
Midgey_Midge06 in reply toPeruzzot

My man does that cuz of his OCD. he checks the handles so often i think they will break one day!

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TexasLawman in reply toMidgey_Midge06

I’m OCD too!

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RoseySawyer in reply toPeruzzot

I do that to. I think I have ocd. My friends tell me that I have it but I don't want to get diagnosed with yet another disease. lol I triple check everything at night to make sure it's off and locked. ☺️♥️🌹

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twooldcrows

great list and some i have had the same problems ...it is fun to read it here ...laughter is my best med and it really helps to see it in print even better...have a great and wonderful day with out any new problems ...have a nice day ...filled with love and happiness...

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TexasLawman in reply totwooldcrows

❤️❤️❤️

Amore55 profile image
Amore55

Oh my gosh! I laughed so hard! I do things like those and more everyday. I forgot my doggies names the other day! Have had both 5 years, you would think muscle memory would override MS. Great pic and post! Love, Kelly xx

2littletime profile image
2littletime in reply toAmore55

I can go one better...I was angry with the dog & called her by my son's name. Poor thing just looked at me with that confused look. So much for being angry.

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Peruzzot in reply to2littletime

😂🤣😂🤣 I have 4 kids. Sometimes I've had to go down the list of names before getting to the right one...and that was before I was diagnosed with MS. 😂🤣😂🤣 They of course just roll they're eyes at me when I'd do that.

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Jesmcd2CommunityAmbassador in reply toPeruzzot

I would just point Peruzzot and say I would figure it out later! 😠🤣🤗💕⛄

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Peruzzot in reply toJesmcd2

😂🤣😂🤣😂 I've done that! Of course when I get mad at my husband I start speaking English to him...he doesn't understand English...he'll ask in Italian "What did you just say to me?!" My response...in English "Learn English!" By this time the kids have already run for the hills so he can't trap them into translating! 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

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Jesmcd2CommunityAmbassador in reply toPeruzzot

🤣😭🤣😭 my whole sentences come out backwards when I get upset 😭 then I get madder! It's horrible! My girls, would be like, you said... I don't care what I said! I mean... Ugh 🤣😭🤣

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Peruzzot in reply toJesmcd2

I've done that!!!😤😬😂🤣😂🤣

TexasLawman profile image
TexasLawman in reply toPeruzzot

peccato che non imparerà l'inglese. è una lingua così bella!

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Peruzzot in reply toTexasLawman

😂🤣😂🤣 e' troppo facile con 4 interprete in casa...gratis. Quando I 2 piccoli erreno ancora 3 e 4 anni hanno scoperto che papa non capisci cosa diccono quando loro parlano l'englesi. Ho scoperto loro un giorno fare I piani didn't non essere buoni. Erano proprio davante papa! Io mi sonno uscito un altro stanza e ho chiesto "What are you going to do?" Their response in unison "Nothing". At which point my husband looked from the tv, to the 2 naughty little boys, then to me and asked "Cosa successo?"😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 The boys and I started laughing and my husband instantly knew that he was the butt of the joke by asking what happened. 😂😂🤣😂 still he hasn't even tried to learn English. He has gotten smart enough to ask for translation before answering any questions posed by my neices and nephews though. Initially he just answered yes to every question. For example "Are you a little girl?" All the kids were rolling with laughter when he answered "Yes."

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TexasLawman in reply toPeruzzot

Kids of course I do the same to my ex wife and younger son. I speak Italian and French because I lived in both countries for several years. Useless except in college, I could say aweful things to girls and they would be swooned. “ oh my God, that’s so romantic!” Lol

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Peruzzot in reply toTexasLawman

😂🤣😂🤣 My 2 youngest played soccer on Italian youth teams and taught English cuss words to their team mates. When the ref would make a bad call they would cuss him out in English. My youngest did that to the wrong ref one day though...the call was really bad in all honesty...but the ref spoke English as well and understood fully what my son called him...he got red carded out of the game. The coach had a weekly report spreadsheet for the team with each child's name on it that was publically posted outside the locker room door. Most of the time comments were generally made about paying attention on the field, ignore parent/grandparent coaching from the stands (Those comments were more directed at the parent/grandparent than the child.), how to better aim their feet at the ball to control it better. But the week my son got red carded the comment was "Run more. Talk less." 😂🤣😂🤣 Everyone instantly knew what that comment was about.

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Peruzzot in reply toTexasLawman

Where and when were you in Italy?

TexasLawman profile image
TexasLawman in reply toPeruzzot

In Sorento near the Amalfi Coast from 79-83

Peruzzot profile image
Peruzzot in reply toTexasLawman

Much farther south than i have been so far. You left almost 10 years before i got there for the first time. You'd be surprised at how many people I have run into over the years who were in the same place as me at the same time. Earlier this year I was at a tech conference and one of the speakers and I kept looking at each other trying to figure out where we knew each other from. We got to talking after she was done with her speech and we figured it out. We worked at a joint exercise that at the stroke of a pen turned into a real world operation, headquartered in Longare, Italy together about 16 years earlier. The exercise was only supposed to last 2 weeks. The operation went on for about 5 months.

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TexasLawman in reply toAmore55

💋💋💋

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TexasLawman in reply toAmore55

I usually go through my kids and my dogs names before saying “ whoever the hell you are!”

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Peruzzot in reply toTexasLawman

😂🤣😂🤣😂

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Peruzzot

Here's another that just came to mind...

You've moved to a new location and have found 2 different local branches of your bank. You've been going to these 2 different branches for over a year depending on what else's was on the way for various errands. Then one day you miss the turn you were supposed to make so you drive around the block and then suddenly realize that you've been going to the same branch the whole time! You've just been getting there different ways! I did that a few weeks ago.😲🙈😧 The branches all look the same.

rjoneslaw profile image
rjoneslaw

o my lord what a list

pamgarner profile image
pamgarner

oh my I can relate to soooo many!that is us though!M.S. stands for multiple screwups:)

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2littletime in reply topamgarner

When I was first diagnosed my husband called National MS Society for info. The lady asked him if he knew what MS meant. He told her yes, but she said "no, it really means more shit." She couldn't have been more right!

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pamgarner in reply to2littletime

true but very funny!

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2littletime

Great list...all sounds very familiar. All we can do is keep smiling. I just say "it's a symptom" & I usually get a pass.

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TexasLawman in reply to2littletime

It’s good to get away from family get togethers without the mom guilt!

BigMar7 profile image
BigMar7

I laughed till I cried and that usually doesn’t happen, but this sure describes me ! Thanks for the great post! 😀❤️

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TexasLawman in reply toBigMar7

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