Great post, barb02. Your reflections are insightful. When I was diagnosed (11 years ago now) I heard (or read, or was told) that the 5 year mark after diagnosis was significant. That perhaps it would be time enough to establish what your prognosis might be and that if you were doing well after 5 years, it was reasonable to expect that your disease course - call it mild for lack of a better more accurate word - to continue. I clung to that hope, whether or not it was true. I don't know that there's any reasonable way to predict what our futures hold when it comes to MS or anything else, but I do know that possitive attitude, gratitude and hope make my present moments happier ones. Constantly worrying about what might happen forces me to emotionally live through hardships I may never experience. I plan too, but only so much.

Thanks for your post today.