I face the impossible every day with MS

I understand how it feels to be drowning in medical bills, strained relationships, physical and mental exhaustion, stressful obligations and a demanding job. Add to that the fact that you’re living every second of your day with multiple sclerosis and you might as well just close the door telling everyone your body’s out of service and you need a break.

You face the impossible every moment of every day and yet somehow as the sun goes down, you always make it. You find yourself climbing into bed feeling beat up, worn out, battered and bruised, but as you lay your head on your pillow and take a moment to look back over the day, you realize that the ninja living inside of you kicked some MS butt.

You pushed through rush hour traffic with your legs and hands cramping up while your head was spinning everything in sight. It felt more like you rode in on a roller coaster than a highway. Then you managed to make it to the bathroom…well, almost. But thankfully you had a change of clothes in your car and no one even noticed that earlier you were wearing a pair of black slacks instead of the blue ones you now have on.

As the day went on you kept making mistake after mistake. You’ve become pretty good at covering those kinds of things up. It takes great skill to stumble over words then turn them into something that makes sense. You’ve mastered the art of word replacement, finger pointing, hand gestures, and usage of the words thingamajig and doohickey.

You even managed to keep from burning down the house after forgetting about the casserole you put in the oven for dinner. Sure, it was a little charred, but you are now an expert as scraping off the burnt parts and still producing something that’s edible.

Today may be an awful day, but it’s not the day you give up even though you have every reason to do so. Instead, it’s the day you push through and remind yourself that if you can make it through the terrible, horrible day you had a few days ago…then you can surely get through today. Let your inner ninja loose.

Hiyah! (jumps in the air and kicks MS in the teeth)