Good Monday morning family. All good, ready for another exciting week of Relapsing-Remitting ms (RRms). Okay maybe a whole week is a bit much to ask, perhaps the next 5 minutes is more doable.
How are “YOU doing life-wise? Are “you” taking your life one small bit at a time, or are “YOU” going at it like an enraged bull in a fine china shop? SLOW DOWN, how old are “YOU”? Let us say “YOU" live to 80, that means for argument's sake “YOU” will have 50 years with this incurable, chronic, progressive, illness. SLOW DOWN, “YOU” can not solve every RRms problem at the snap of a finger. It is not that kind of illness. SLOW DOWN, take things slowly. Solve one problem at a time. All “YOU” will do by rushing is burn yourself out. Understand that there is no solution to our condition, there is only management. With that, anything that “YOU” do manage to contain, will be thwarted by the illness. Look at things as though “YOU” have solved the problem for now, BUT it will come back one day and "YOU" will adapt then to solve it again. If “YOU’ can not solve it perhaps find away around it. As my good friend always says, adapt adapt adapt.
Do not let these situations break “YOU”. Accept that they are going to come. Resist what “YOU” can and adapt to what “YOU” can not. Remember the waves crashing on a cliff face. Eventually, the water will turn those mighty stones into sand. It may just take a while. Eventually, RRms will break us all down, this is to be expected. Your aim is to resist, adapt and circumvent this for as long as “YOU” can. Be at ease with whatever “YOU” may become, Accept your path. “YOU” may make every attempt to influence your path, and that is okay. I take Disease-Modifying Therapy (DMT) to change my path. Not to cure it, simply to make it progress in a way I am comfortable with. Of course, I can not control it, and neither can “YOU”. I can merely adapt and enjoy all that I do have for as long as I can living with constant hurt and anger is no way to live.
This has happened to us. I do not know why nobody does. All “YOU” and I can do is make the best with the individual situation that we have, and maybe take it a little easier on ourselves.
Royce (your ms writer)
one moment at a time
