I wanna find her email so I can send her pix of all the dogs I adopted on account of her and her commercials.




Some words for you ladies who are not crying - Wait for menopause. Just wait.

Originally Posted by Kitty
or one of those animal abuse commercials (the one with the Sarah McLaughlin song).


As soon as that comes on, I switch channels. I cannot watch it..

oh! me too! I simply cannot/willnot watch those commercials. I am a long time supporter of the ASPCA and donate to my local shelter. All my animals are rescue, and so forth, but I simply cannot watch that. I am impressed that they are allowed to put it on channels where children are watching kids shows, and then they see hungry, beaten, abused kitties, and scream "mom! we have to go get a kitten!"

I sometimes envy my g/fs that are able to sniffle away at sad movies, or emotional events, but then other times, I am just fine with being the stong girl I am. I do feel sad, I do feel emotional, but the tears have never been part of the make up of who I am. My mother is the same way, I think in the last 47 years I have seen her cry less than 5 times.

My ex MIL was quite different, and I was always amazed at how easily she could flip over and sob. She would cry at a good white sale at JCP. She would cry at the news, cry at movies, cry when hearing bad news about people she didnt know. If I had to pick an extreme, I would rather stay dry. Of course, she wasnt my fav person in the world either, so I never made any attempt to get to know her better.

a good cry can be very therapeutic. but, unfortunately i don't do it very often.
after i do i have more reserves and am ready to fight another day.

hugs sally. (ps...my smilies won't work)

LOL...me, too Sally. I remember one day it came on and one of the boys had the remote. I kept saying "change the channel, change the channel" but they wouldn't change it! I just stuck my fingers in my ears and started with the "la, la, la, la" song. They both looked at me like I was crazy!

This reminds me of the old me. I was never a crier when I was a child. My oldest sister died when I was 16 of bone cancer. I think I shed a few tears when Mom and Dad came home from the hospital and told us she was gone. But at the funeral I just sat there with all these feelings coming up and I couldn't cry. My other sister who is 18 months older than me just sat there and bawled. Later in life when we were more mature and could talk about it both said we were jealous of the other. She thought I was very composed and I was jealous because she could let it out.

Funny thing is that since I got married I can actually cry! I jokingly tell my husband that he is responsible for making me cry.

Tears are very therapeutic. Emotions are all from God and we need to use them correctly. And I think that even those of us who have had MS for several years we need to feel we can cry just for the heck of it. We have lost a lot of tings because of this but we have also gained a lot from it. A lot of insight, a lot friends and a lot of bills!

I understand just where you're coming from, Sally. It seems to me that the longer we live with this horrible -- HORRIBLE -- disease, the more painful it becomes in dealing with what it has taken away. There aren't many days that go by without shedding some tears due to the frustration of yet another "simple" task becoming a major obstacle. WHY, WHY, WHY (we're not supposed to ask), but WHY in the world does it have to be so hard to pull up your pants?? Hanging onto the chair for dear life, fighting the dizziness and weakness, trying to take care of business with one hand......WHY? What purpose can it possibly serve???

I'm sorry you're going through this too.....let's have a pity party together! And yes, I suppose going through life and dealing with all of this alone, doesn't help either. But then my neuro actually said "you certainly have good reason to cry". (((((Sally)))))

Pain- My mom, me, dd never cry. As Mom lay dieing of painful cancer, doctor expressed concern over her high pain level. At 3 Y.O. DD would not cry at immunization needles, causing nurses to gather round watching her. When she dislocated her shoulder and they snapped it back (OW!!!)
She chose to laugh, would not cry. Emotional stuff!!! We're all bawlers. Can make each other cry if we have tears in our eyes. Guess we think we're tough, but we're not so.

I honestly have a good cry at least twice a month. I have days where I am having a pity party and it helps. Its a disease that plays with someones body so much. One second we have use of said leg or arm then could be driving down road and all of a sudden you can't feel them. So I say its our pity party and we can cry if we want to hugs