Here come the holidays! Warm and comforting, family and visitors, shopping and cooking, hectic and tiring. Yes, it's a bit of everything.
We have some family arriving this week, staying for several days. I'm looking forward to the visit and also feeling my stress level rise a bit too. I need to get the spare room ready, fresh sheets on the beds... Read more
It is what it is.
I'm trying to focus on those simple words. It's so easy to get into the ‘what if' game. I know because I do that all the time! What if my fuzzy vision today turns into blindness tomorrow? Yikes! What if my pain levels increase? Oh no! What if I lose my job, what if my husband gets fed up and divorces me, what if the next... Read more
When I was little, I read the dictionary. I wanted to know every word there was to know and what each word meant. That way, there could be no surprises and the world would be clearly defined. Yeah, I was the kind of kid that liked math too. 1+1 always equaled 2.
Nice.
Fast-forward 40 years and here I am with an... Read more
One of my favorite pastimes is watching the TV series "House", a show about a cranky brilliant doctor who diagnoses the most puzzling critical cases. The part I always wait for is the moment that comes in virtually every single show - when someone says "Looks like MS."
My family and I groan together when it turns out the patient doesn't have MS.... Read more
It's hard to plan for visitors and MS at the same time. I know I have limitations but they change from day to day. Some days I feel pretty darn good and MS hides in a corner of my mind, which is a good thing. On those good days, there is still a twinge or two as my medication dosage time approaches. But once I've taken the Trileptal, things tend... Read more
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