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Saturday, August 9, 2008

What's That Noise?

Living with me is not easy. It wasn’t when I was not disabled and it is even more of a challenge now, just the nature of the beast. This personality has to be worked on daily. I’m sorry to say it is something that I haven’t conquered, yet. However, I did manage to marry a very nice man who has been willing to take on the project of “rounding off the corners”. Plus, he has never considered “bailing” on me since, or before, I was diagnosed with MS. The statistics are something like 80% of husbands are gone when the spouse is diagnosed with a chronic disease. So, even though I get irritated at my disabilities, like crushing fatigue, constant pain, brain fog, lack of balance, etc., it can’t be any fun for him either.

Like when I fall. For most of my major falls he has been there. He gets so scared. The first thing he wants to do is get me up. It’s almost like if he gets me up immediately, then he can wipe out what just happened. But, I have to just stay down and get all of the molecules lined up again. The first thing I say is “I’m OK.” When I’ve had a chance to breathe a few deep breaths and start to feel like I can move, then I’m happy to have his help. Today he was gone when I fell. The first thing that I thought of was “I’m glad he’s not here.” I knew that I was alright, even though I hurt like crazy! I sat for awhile, and then very gingerly got up on the chair. OK…so far, so good. Thank God for all that Vitamin D I’ve been taking, no broken bones?.

When he got home, he could tell something was amiss with me. “What happened?” I told him and showed him my latest scrapes and bruising. He said that he was glad that he wasn’t here as he probably would have broken his neck running in from the garage when he heard the noise of me falling. We laughed and laughed…what else is a person to do? Laughter really is the best medicine. So sitting, which I do most of the time, is now very uncomfortable. Nertz!! I had just gotten rid of the last bruise that bothered my sitting. Oh Well…life will go on and I will keep smiling!

Time to watch the Olympics.
Healthy Days To You, Your Smiling Maven

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