G’day my ms brothers and sisters. That is “YOU” if “YOU” are reading this. I just wanted to be clear. All that “YOU” hear, read or think “YOU” heard about our life long companion (scourge) Relapsing-Remitting ms (RRms may or may not be true for “YOU” Yes, this is a wildly variable disease, there is a huge amount of things that can go wrong over your many years. There are also a huge amount that will not. Read that again, stay health, exercise, eat healthy, take your Disease-Modifying Therapy (DMT) and a lot of things may not go wrong for “YOU”.
Do NBOT PANIC, Do not WORRY. What will happen will happen. Causing yourself stress and fretting about possibilities are not a good way to live your long life. I was diagnosed (Dx’d) in my late twenties, I am now in my early fifties. I am at my standing desk having walked here from my bed writing to “YOU”. I will go get something to drink from the kitchen and perhaps, stop at the toilet and empty my bladder. I took my one Tecfidera tablet at six am and will take another at six pm. Do you see NORMAL. In between times I will eat, talk to my joint dog. Do chirrups as I walk back and forth thru my bedroom door. I think today I will try for the sixties. I think sixty-six chirrups in a day is not to bad. Monday I will go to the gym, I think ten thousand pounds lifted might be a good goal, maybe more. I have goals and I achieve them. WHY, because I want to and having RRms is not a good reason not too. Being to lazy to get out of bed and start my day is my only reason. RRms is never a reason. There is very little that today I can not or do not do because I have RRms, and there is ABSOLUTELY no reason why this disease should stop “YOU”, unless of course “YOU” let it.
RRms stops me, my dreams when I let it. I do not fear what may happen because it my not. I do not limit myself because I have no limits. The limits I do have are self imposed and believe me there are very few of those. Do not limit your life because of fear or, what if’s or this might happen. Carpe diem (cease the day) cease every moment hat your eyes are open. Never, ever limit yourself. We all have an incurable illness that will try to do that for us over our long lifetimes. Make your limits those that “YOU” create for yourself, do not let RRms create the limits for “YOU”.
Learn this statement, memorize it and believe it. Anything that I can do “YOU” can do and do better, I am very far from special. “YOU” are special.
Royce (the ms writer)
you are special, very special, believe it and live it.
