When one gets a diagnoses of MS, for me in that moment, life stopped. It was my second day in the hospital and after the neurologist gave me information on my current and future state of health, I was left wondering. Wondering what is MS? How will it affect me? How will it affect my family, friends, career? I spent the rest of a week in my hospital bed hooked to an iv off and on, and reading up on MS. It's been eleven months and I haven't stopped reading.
Well, I've found out numerous things, but through my own experience I've discovered that life goes on. But for me, it goes on not according to plan. MS was not in my plan for the future. My plan was to grow very old, with a very old wife, and with very old kids, who have somewhat old kids, and after being very successful before retiring, never having to worry about things like money, house, vehicles, vacations, and everything that goes along with "successful".
Reality is I have to re-learn MS everyday, because it throws something slightly different at me on a daily basis. I'm also learning that the key to coping with this is learning to adjust on a daily basis. This is a good thing, when we can learn to adjust daily means life is continuing. In my book, life continuing is a wonderful thing. Although at a much slower pace, but it continues, and I still plan to live to be very old with an old wife, kids, and their kids to be somewhat old.
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