G’day family. “YOU” do realize that living well with your ms requires a multi-step approach. Just taking your chosen Disease-Modifying Therapy ( DMT) is not going to cut it. This is not a one pill or injection disease. It takes constant action over the rest of your very long life. 30 40 50 60 years. Not every minute of every day, but some sort of action. I take my DMT every day twice a day. I figure I will be buried and they will put a tablet in my mouth and the jar in my hand just for good measure.
I will have stretched, exercised and lifted lots of weight. Merely doing one thing will not have given me or “YOU” a good livable life, over my 40 or 50 years. I will and have tried lots of different things, met lots of people. I never said “I am taking my DMT, problem solved. I am constantly moving and adapting to this illness. xyz was my solution yesterday, today it is time for something different. ms is not a static illness and to counter it neither should I be and the same goes for “YOU”
Somethings need consistency, time and patience. I stuck with my every other day needles for years. They introduced a tablet, I started that, as I really dislike needles. I will take my tablet forever. “YOU” should plan on taking your medicine forever. Do your research into ms, but do not plan on being cured. Do not set your dreams on that. I feel “YOU” will be disappointed. It is very possible to live a good and for filling life with ms.
There will be things that “YOU” can not or should not do, BUT having this illness does not mean that your life is ended. NOT by a long shot. Different, challenging but certainly not over. “YOU” like me have come to a crossroad in our long life journey. ms is the obstacle that we have to climb over and left or right is the direction that we have the decision we have make. One way leads to total darkness, the other leads to gloom with the possibility of a little more ight. It is not over, this decision will have to be made again and again over you ms journey. That decision does not get easier, “YOU” get used to making it. IT becomes part of your existence. “YOU” will make the decision to do the not so easy things, because that is what “YOU” want to do. (thank you Pres. Kennedy). ms is not easy, but “YOU” my ms sibling are strong enough to face this challenge. Always believe in yourself. When “YOU” doubt yourself I will remind “YOU”, that ms is something that “YOU” can do. I have complete confidence in “YOU”
Royce (your ms writer)
you CAN do this, have confidence in yourself like I do
