It was 1997 when I first heard I had Multiple Sclerosis and I was devastated. Those of you who have read my previous Posts know that I have lived with a spine condition since I was about 12 years old, which left me in chronic pain. During the next forty years I took increasingly stronger pain medications, was hospitalized a few times for tests... Read more
I dressed myself up yesterday and this time had places to go! When I woke up my body was feeling very weird and I didn’t know if I was going to be able to go where I planned but I didn’t panic or decide anything; instead I moved slowly and let my body normalize, if that is such a word. It is difficult for me to describe how my... Read more
All dressed up and nowhere to go! That’s me today, and it’s frustrating. I am so tired of living in jeans and sweat suits that I took the opportunity of a doctor’s appointment today to put on a nice pair of wool slacks, a nice sweater and blazer, and even blew my hair out all the way so it hung nicely down to my... Read more
I am not one given to sudden revelations, a moment in time when I attain total clarity about some aspect of my life, but once in a while it does happen, a flash of insight that strikes me as so obvious and clear that I cannot understand why I hadn’t seen it a long time ago. Most of the time, however, when I have such a moment of... Read more
A friend called to schedule a time to get together for lunch. “Ok,” I say. “Let me just look in my calendar to see when I can make it.”
Since I had to stop working and go on disability one might assume my calendar would be pretty clear and finding a time to meet my friend would be easy. Ah, but... Read more
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