Re: Coping with chronic Illness - by an MSer -- good read

it appears to me that the majority of msers have a simaler story to
tell. i was 18 teen with a dx of a full right sided stroke.. i felt
blessed it didn't kill me..

my magor thoughts at the time were how do i get around this with my
little sons... i got around it with the help of walls, chairs, and other
things...

i had what i thought were many minor strokes that come and went leaving
me with a little more disability... i felt blessed i was still a live to
raise my little ones.

it was quiet a few years before i learned i had ms. and the doc at ucla
medical center told me he had ms too and planned on continueing to
practice medicine..

i left there feeling deeply that if the doc can make it i can to and i
never looked back...

i did accomplish my goals " Motherhood" the most important of all and a
very rewarding career. i have lived my life to my fullest capacity... i
did more things and enjoyed more things that other healthy people ever
do....i was born with a zest for life that even shows in my little kid
pic's... i played base ball when i could barely run to a base. it would
wipe me out so bad i'd lay in the dirt until i could get up and then off
i went again...

i'm still like that and hardly acomplish much.. good grief when i read
some of my replys written when i am tired here... i say to myself "oh
lordy me" did i write that? sometimes i laugh like heck over my self....
and then i'm back at it again:-)

on bad days i use the pollianna mask... it brings back rewards that
please me... and at the same time lifts the burden from the those around
me.

do i ever forget i have ms? you bet i do most of the time. on
thanksgiving i reach in my fridge to pull out our 22 pound turkey and it
crashed to the floor... i was caught up in the moment of time of the
events that lay before me...... dory

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