Good morning my ms family, let all of “YOU” be well today and every day, if “YOU” can not be, at least cope and do yourself no harm. Intentionally or otherwise.
I am aware that most of us go to the NmsS website first, but I am unsure of that site and I have seen newbies (newly diagnosed) here so I will write this to them mostly. My ego is not quite strong enough to write for so big an audience, thank you very much ms.
Okay, just been diagnosed(Dx’d) and feel your world has collapsed and buried “YOU” in a deep dark hole. At least, I felt that way. First reaction. I always suggest and recommend, at first a good long hard cry. Do NOT scream why me, that is an easy answer, “YOU” are a human Being, a member of the family Homo Sapien, Homo Sapiens get this condition so it may as well be “YOU” as much your siblings. No, do not wish it on them, be glad if it had to be somebody and that it was “YOU” and not them. They may never understand the sacrifice that “YOU” made, but eventually “YOU” will come to accept it. There is no cure for this illness, search as much as “YOU” like, but I am sorry “YOU” will not find one, let alone a reason. Hard to accept, but it just is. Eventually “YOU” will come to understand this but it may take “YOU” sometime. and that is okay, time is what “YOU” may have a lot of now.
I might suggest that very many of your supposed life plans “YOU” may want to be adjusted. I was never going to be an airline pilot, now even less so. Such is life. I was never going to find the perfect, for me, a partner in life. I did and did so very quickly. Life works in mysterious ways, perhaps I had to have my shock of ms to find my right path. Perhaps “YOU” do as well. That is a much better way of thinking than" oh why me". Try to find some good, or at least not a terrible thing in this ms. Look for a light to lead “YOU” out of the dark hole that “YOU” may find yourself in. Over the many miles that “YOU” travel along your ms life path, occasionally look back and say it did turn out in ways I ever expected, but it did work out. This is NOT your end. It is a new beginning. Every day can be a new beginning, this is not your end. Not even close to it.
Today is just another day. No matter how “YOU” feel, it is just another day. And because it is just another day “YOU” can pull yourself together and take another step forward. “YOU” are so much stronger, better, tougher than “YOU,” think. “YOU” can cry when “YOU” need to AND “YOU” can travel your ms path, no matter what obstacles it may throw at “YOU”. It after all is just another day.
Royce (your ms writer and brother)
Why, because you are YOU and that is very good and it is just another day.
