Good Sunday morning Sisters and Brothers. How are we all today? Good, I hope, all things considered. Have “YOU” got your head around this being permanent, incurable and chronic? Wipe away the tears, after 20+ years, it has had its moments. I have managed to get through it all so far, and believe me if I CAN “YOU” most definitely “YOU” can as well. I think “YOU” may do it so well that “YOU will make me look like a crying babe in the corner. I have that much confidence in your inner strength. It is there just let it out be free and let it il “YOU” up. Be confident in yourself.
Today, we shall discuss finding your way forward. I was diagnosed (Dx’d) at 29, today I am 50 something. I stopped counting at 50, I had made it. I really do not care what I finish with, I made it half a century. My path was clear and laid out for me. I stopped on occasion and kept some personal goals (read she who must be obeyed) but your path may not be so clear.
Never ever, give up on yourself. “YOU” may have a very long time with this disease. Try to make your time worthwhile and if “YOU” can inspire those that come after “YOU”. “YOU” may not be called to write a book, lecture, maybe it is teaching your children to be strong confident Homo Sapiens, (human beings) Your particular path may lead “YOU” who knows where, if “YOU” let it. I know of several women who have had children, got married got divorced, and still drive cars. Something I have not done for years and with a new car I will not do again. It is okay, the mailbox is not far away and I really should walk to it instead of drive.
Do “YOU” see it? “YOU” still have a future, dreams to achieve. Do not let this inconvenience stop “YOU”, and yes I did say INCONVENIENCE. Change of life plans. Make it and treat Relapsing-Remitting ms (RRms) as an inconvenience. A hill in the road that is your life path. I was never meant to be a soldier, a pilot, anything else. I was meant to be here, here for “YOU” and as much as “YOU” may not realize it ‘YOU” are meant in some way to be here for me. For that I thank “YOU” and it is okay if we never meet on this plane. I know in some way “YOU” are out there. To be honest, I think our paths have crossed and we never let go of each other, but that is my opinion.
What may lay on your path? Are “YOU” willing to see it and accept it? Embrace it totally. NO, most certainly your life is not over. “YOU” will find your way forward and also much will open up for “YOU” and to “YOU”. Make a plan, and then take steps to achieve it. Rome was not built in a day and neither are “YOU. Lastly, wear your protective underwear when “YOU” need it and take you Disease-Modifying Therapy (DMT). it WILL have ssd effects, but nothing that “YOU” can not learn to handle.
Royce (your ms writer and brother)
Still not a doctor. calm down and believe in yourself.
