Good morning beloved ms family (YOU) I really do love “YOU all I write to “YOU every day and have only nice thoughts for “YOU" it must be love. Okay now that we have determined that how was last nights sleep? We stayed up late watching truly garbage television. We are addicted to rubbish on the Lifetime channel. it is always good to watch how crazy people are and take bets on who we think is going to last as a marriage. Some of these people are really weird.
Today we shall talk about getting out of your head. NO not drugs and booze your ms head. I understand at first “YOU” might be overwhelmed. A chronic, incurable medical condition is a lot to get your self around. Rest assured “YOU” will come to your own terms with it. “YOU” will get to a point where “YOU” do not make every moment of every day as a battle. “YOU” will wear the ms warrior t-shirt, the mask and think I am no warrior. I do not like being on the losing side. It is okay, I wear my mask and everyday wish it did not say ms warrior. I like the t-shirts that say “I am not drunk, I have ms, well maybe a little drunk”. I have a rather warped sense of humour at times I am told.
Get out of your head. “YOU” have ms, “YOU” are taking the strongest Disease-modifying Therapy (DMT), “YOU” exercise, eat well, do not smoke and limit your drinking. There are a few other things that “YOU” might do but none that will make RRms go away. It is ours until the day we pass. Get out of your head, this is reality. Do not dwell on it, do not be saddened by it. This IS our lot in life. Maybe not the next one, but most certainly this one, Get out of your head, do not worry, fret, be depressed. What will be will be.
Why do “YOU” not make what will be into something a little brighter for yourself. Move yourself from those dark days and nights of ms fear into something brighter. I like to imagine initially I was in a cold dark cave. I did not know where I was going to go, all I could see was darkness. All I could feel was cold. I asked myself was this my life was I stuck here. I started DMT and I started to see a little brightness. I started exercising, eating right and as I did a little light started to come into my life. I learned more about my condition, asked many questions. I started to work out that RRms was not good but I could make it not bad, so can “YOU”. As this illness affects everybody differently, your solution may be different, BUT my RRms sibling there is a solution for “YOU”. Get out of your head. Do not dwell on what might go wrong for “YOU”. It probably won’t. Make good things happen for “YOU”.
Imagine yourself NOT in the dark of RRms BUT in the dim light travelling towards the brightest that “YOU” can imagine for yourself. Have hope, dream. Never give up on yourself, strive for one more. Whatever it is only one more. Do not sell yourself short, this is a doable illness. Frustrating, sneaky but nothing that “YOU” can not come to terms with a do.
Royce (your ms writer and brother)
believe in yourself and dream huge. now make it happen with a smile on your face and in your heart
