No matter what happens, it will be okay
Even if you can’t do something as you once could, you have to keep trying. Be calm, be brave, don’t quit on life and never quit on yourself. The world needs you. I need you.
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Entries by Penelope Conway
Nothing with MS is smooth sailing
You may feel like you’re on a roller coaster of emotions. Accepting what’s going on one day and angry about it the next.
I seem to be allergic to multiple sclerosis
Since MS has taken up residence in my body, I have discovered many things that affect me that never did before. It seems like symptoms show up out of nowhere and have a tendency to hang around for a long, long time… sometimes forever.
MS progression… what is it?
I try my best to stay active because I know there will come a day when my body will be limited in the things it can do.
The multiple sclerosis storm you are in
Multiple sclerosis sweeps into your life and attempts to take you out. The destruction left behind can seem impossible to handle. Your life has become a moment by moment experience. Some moments are good, some bad and some are downright horrible.
A monster called multiple sclerosis
As a grown up, my monsters changed. They still try to scare me but in different ways. I have to be sure to keep my heart and mind protected from their scare tactics.
When you gotta pee
Remember that you weren’t given an instruction manual along with multiple sclerosis, and you can only do the best you can with the information you have at the time.
I can’t wish MS away
I can’t wish MS away or even think positively enough for it to disappear. Some people have said dealing with it is just mind over MS, haha. I doubt they have had any issues with MS to overcome or even MS itself.
MS can cause memory loss
We live our lives in a crazy, seemingly unending fog due to multiple sclerosis. Fight through the fog, dodge the dizziness that happens, keep your focus on the end even when there is no end in sight.
A message to the disabled with MS
Having a disability can introduce a unique set of challenges that you have to go through and some you never even imagined you would be dealing with. There are certain things that I could have benefited from hearing in order to feel less alone.
1. Simplify your life.2. Watch your thoughts. What goes in, comes out.
3. Surround yourself with positive people.
4. Take time for yourself, even if it means saying "no" to others.
5. Be grateful, laugh and celebrate life.
6. Think more about what you have as opposed to what you don't have.
7. Help others.