Your So Strong...

[Jesmcd2]

What does that mean to you?🤔

🤗💕🌠🦈

[RoyceNewton]

Strong, no determined. I will do as much as I can to have the best life that I can despite the circumstances.

[rjoneslaw]

despite what ur going through you have achieved so much or you have pushed yourself beyond the limitations

[carolek572 CommunityAmbassador]

Never heard it mentioned to me, Jesmcd2 except by my neurologist and I take it as a good thing 😉

[Hidden]

A friend of mine tells me that all the time. I take it as compliment .😍 In addition to having RRMS diagnosed in 1993. I was involved in a traumatic accident in 1977 (prior to diagnosis of MS) 45 fractures, 15 surgeries and many months to regain strength. Couldn't walk for several years. Pelvic fractures, femur, left foot crushed/ foot drop, Lumbar vertebra, left arm, teeth, nose on & on I won't bore you. I suspect this injury pushed me to be resilient I worked myself very hard and learned to walk again! Now that I think of it I had Numbness and tingling while I was in the hospital. I do believe all of us are strong, focused, not willing to give in, it's a beautiful accomplishment being strong.

[jimeka in reply to Hidden]

You are incredible, what an inspiration to us all, you definitely give the meaning of strength, meaning. What you have been through, thank you for sharing, blessings Jimeka 🤗 👏👏👏

[hairbrain4]

To me, it means you are pushing through whatever life throws at you despite having MS or any other disease for that matter. A week ago I was at the point where I just wanted to throw in the towel & give up. But thanks to friends & the people here I was able to pick myself up by the bootstraps & keep moving forward. I didn't give up & let MS win. I'm still fighting it but with a little more confidence.

[falalalala]

It's meant as a compliment but sometimes I can't help but wonder how bad they think it is for me-or how they themselves would handle MS.

It depends on who is saying it too as some people freak out if they catch a sniffle so an MS diagnosis is the absolute worst thing that can ever befall (pun intended) a human being.

So, if you're not b!tching about it 24/7 they might there is some incredible strength involved along with some astounding stoicism.

😆

I'd like to think that the people I care about would handle it just as everyone on this site does. Day by day.

[Klutzy]

It depends on the context it was said. If you’re helping someone move furniture and he/she said that. Then they meant you are physically strong. Yet if it was said about dealing with a difficult situation, like your MS, then I’d take it that you are emotionally stable, able to adjust to changes and you are resilient.

[BettysMom]

You're

[mrsmike9 in reply to BettysMom]

Ha! I'm not the only grammar police!!!

[BettysMom in reply to mrsmike9]

I'm so happy to have your company!

[mrsmike9 in reply to BettysMom]

I drive my kids (and husband) crazy. Kids say all kinds of things. M says things like, "it needs fixed". Argh!!! No, no, no! It needs TO BE fixed!!!

[BettysMom in reply to mrsmike9]

The husband is likely a lost cause. But, please continue to correct your children. Good grammar is a valuable asset in professional life. Whereas, bad grammar will always look stupid.

[mrsmike9 in reply to BettysMom]

My shirt today.

T-shirt

[BettysMom in reply to mrsmike9]

I love it! Thanks for the chuckle.

[mrsmike9 in reply to BettysMom]

My mom’s shirt I got when she died. She was the English queen!!

[BettysMom in reply to mrsmike9]

My mother's bachelor's degree was in mathematics but she had excellent grammar and writing skills. I'm so happy that she instructed me in grammar from a very young age. My neighbor and good friend who died in May was a real grammar Nazi. She was an English major and a high school English teacher. I doubt that her grammar was really any better than mine but she knew the all rules verbatim, knew all the parts of speech, and could diagram any sentence. I miss commiserating with her about the current state of American English and about what public education has come to. (Yes, I know I just ended a sentence with a preposition.)

[ekelks in reply to BettysMom]

Thank you. I am a nut about this too. I wanted to think it's a typo and I have committed many in my lifetime but I think it's the internet shortening our sentences into miniature pictures and the fewer punctuation marks the happier the twitterverse will be.

Strength: I wish I was strong. I am not that strong. I wish I could go out and help people again. I know I can't and that when I wish that I'm really feeling sorry for myself.

If I were strong I'd stop watching so much television and go back to reading books. But I'm not, and I haven't.

[goatgal]

When people say that to me, I always assume they don't know what else to say. I don't hear it as a real compliment.

[ahrogers]

My husband has said I am the strongest person he knows a couple times. He is just trying to relay he knows I am dealing with a lot even when I don't complain about it.

What I hate is when somehow the fact I have MS comes up in conversation with someone I don't know well (or at all) and they say something like "wow, you're doing great". I know they mean well and have likely seen people with MS in worse shape but it bothers me that they base their judgment on the fact I can still walk.

[kycmary in reply to ahrogers]

I hear that & understand!

[kdali in reply to ahrogers]

Yes 👏 As long as my EDSS says I’m great 😜

[MsBoo]

It means to me that someone has considered in their own mind what it might be like.. and that they think that they could not deal as I do with all of it.. maybe one thing, but not all of it at once.. and I take it as a compliment.. and walk on with my head a little higher, for that one person, has even thought about what it might be like to be in my shoes...

[kycmary in reply to MsBoo]

Good thoughts thanks!

[kathyrags]

I read somewhere that you have to climb a mountain and you can complain the whole way or not, either way you still have to climb... I choose not to complain. ms is a crazy mountain... I've been told I'm so positive they admire that... really my thought is, the only thing I can really control is my outlook. I'm climbing everyday.

[falalalala in reply to kathyrags]

Yes!

[kycmary in reply to kathyrags]

I agree!

[Sandydemop]

What it means to me is the pains I go through have made me stronger. Do I need to carry the pain? I don't know. It's part of me. MS is part of me. Other pains are part of me. I am a survivor.

[DIsneyQueen]

I hear that from a lot of people. It often comes with “ you have such a great attitude and are so positive “ I have PPMS and can barely walk with a walker. I take it as a compliment and tell them thank you but I am truly blessed and have a lot of Faith and even though this is not where I envisioned myself in retirement, it is where I am supposed to be.

[kycmary]

Depends on who said it & what was going on!

[twooldcrows]

not much it is just what we have to do to be able to enjoy our lives ....love and much happiness....

[Sandydemop in reply to twooldcrows]

YOU have a great attitude. Always sharing love and happiness. How do you do it?