My Inspiration
 

People send me inspirational videos. The MSer who climbs a mountain (Unless that mountain is Wheelchair accessible, it's not gonna happen for me) The ballet dancer who lost a leg, dancing with her partner who lost an arm (I couldn't dance before MS!), the guy with no arms or legs who goes to schools and speaks and Inspires. But once I saw on the Health channel a woman with no arms who put mascara on using her toes!! Now that I relate to. I may have use of only one hand, but I can use it to put mascara on!

P|S I hate when people send me Inspirational videos

Same here. My favorite is when they say "If they can do it imagine what you can do!" haha

|Sometimes I imagine walking and it never works.:mad:

Jim walks every night in his dreams. Does that count? lol

but if you just had a better attitude. you must say to yourself "I CAN DO THIS! and you will!


pfffft. what a load! as if I can think myself out of a disability. :confused:

A positive attitude can also be, accepting your limitations and moving forward with them.:cool:

I like inspirational videos.....BUT, Peeps who send them to the handicapped are A-holes and cruel.:mad:

I second Sally's assertions. For me the (IN) in INspiration is the reminder to do what can be done withIN the reality of the limitation of my disability. Not a magical -thinking OUT of it. I have managed to accomplish a lot with-IN the parameters of my limitations and I believe that anyone can.

Like the little engine that could - I think I can. Get real you non-MSers. No one praises the hard things I do. Despite the chair, I self-toilet, pay the bills, Get a doctor for my kids within 12 hours or less (10 minutes is my best), make my lunch, never leave a mess. I never could dance anyway.

I get this- even though I'm in limbo land. It makes sense. It would be very unruly and insensitive. People can just be plain idiots and stupid. No common sense in the sensitive area. :(

Coffeegirl

I know that people mean well...I think it's a matter of friends feeling helpless, and that this is something that they can do to problem solve, kind of like husbands who always try to find an answer to our problems when all we want to do is ***** about something:)

I never get inspirational things sent to me...which is fine!

in a wheelchair with large cast on my foot for 4 days and counting. I get it, Kicker. I have used you as my inspiration. I would like to use your DH to remodel my living space.

No kidding. I usually just tell them,
http://www.pic4ever.com/images/vahidrk.gif http://www.pic4ever.com/images/Just_Cuz_15.gif

And that's why you are my inspiration. :D

Tell it like it is, Kicker! :D
I don't get these "inspirational" videos anymore. Anyone who emails me knows me too well to send that...stuff. :icon_twisted:
By the way, anyone up for a climb up Everest next summer? I'm feeling frisky.:Head-Spin:

Thinking about it more.. I am okay with finding my own inspiration, but when others force it on me, I reject it too. So yeah, that doesn't work for me either........

I agree with you,Kicker. If we could watch an inspirational video and then think ourselves out of this MS we would have done it long ago.

Just yesterday someone mailed me one of those and at one spot you had to really lean in to see a flower that this girl was wearing and then...BLAMMO! Linda Blair came screaming to the front of my screen all green and gross! it was a halloween trick. EEEK! :eek:

My true friends dont send me such stuff so I thought it was weird when I saw it. It must have been really good for them to have put it in my box.

I am going to search the internet for inspiration now. if I could just find the right video I can cure myself. :cool:

I'll meet you at the top. Bring a flag.

Makes me realize that my fam and I need to back off of trying to make FIL walk straighter/more quickly.
He has a form of Parkinson's that makes him stiff and slow...he can barely pick up his feet when he walks. MIL keeps nagging him...she tells him he can walk faster if he tries...
If he'd been stretching and doing his PT exercises all along, maybe...but he's been getting stiffer for 5 years now, and I worry about him falling. And he just likes to sit and listen to CNBC...won't go down to exercise at their excellent facility...
So all the cheerleading in the world won't help him walk better...it is what it is, just like my swiss cheese brain is full of holes no matter how many sudoku puzzles I finish...:(
So thanks for the reminder about how unhelpful inspirational messages are...

Not sure, but think it's like AA or rehab. Person doing it has to decide. (not that just deciding in your head means success in MS - some things you can't conquer with thought)

Great! Picked anyone to haul you up there yet? If not, maybe my shirpa could handle two...:D

Good point, Kickie, I've done a lot of things I "shouldn't" or "can't" do because I chose to do them. It wasn't the way I'd have done it in my other life, but when I decide to do something, I figure out how I'll do it "my" way and I do it.

Inspiration! AMN cooks up Peeps, travels west, moves states away from where she's been forever, takes no carp and then takes her nap. The Kittys, Aarcyns, B2Y, Mwas, Sandy C, Deij, Legz and countless others who show what-for every day. Climbing a mountain is just kind of a useless activity and not my yardstick of true grit (although Polar, gotta know, is your Sherpa cute?) My friend who continued though her breast cancer and did and then died, a friend with Fibromyalgia who soldiers through. If I ever need some tough broads I know where to look. (and some guys) And some of you make me spit!!! Kudos.

The guy staining my deck today has rectal cancer that spread to his lungs. He's currently on chemo and has a colostomy bag. He says he keeps going because he's afraid if he stops he will go down hill. He's climbing that mountain! Inspiration, sometimes, is just meeting those who can't but do the best they can.