This disease is just a never-ending evolution. What I'm evolving into remains to be seen.

But laughing every day, loving every day, and doing your best every day helps!

As my saying at the bottom goes, "With adversity you have two choices: either let it make you bitter, or let it make you better!" All of that resistance makes for a better person.

Yeah, "life is not waiting for the rain to stop, is about learning to dance under the rain"

I agree that it's easy to quit...esp when your mind is giving you negative thoughts.
The problem I have is trying to move through the pain and stiffness...when pain overwhelms you, it is difficult to think of trying to accomplish what you want to when your body wants to rest...I also feel that the fear of what this disease is doing to my body occasionally overwhelms my mind...and makes it difficult for me to fight it...

I thank God daily for my dx. It was such a kick in the butt for me. I had my priorities in llife so screwed up. My proffesion came first and then way back was my God and family. I actually think nursing took places 1 - 5 and then my husband and kids. When I had to quit my last child was just getting ready to graduate form high school and go off to college. I don't know how my husband and I would have done with the whole 'empty nest' thing if I had not been home. It was like a whole new marriage thing for us. If I had been working it would not have turned out as well.

I am very grateful for those intense years of nursing because they gave me the SSD check that I get. But I'm glad that I'm home

I'm with Sally. I can't answer your question either. What, there's things I can't do?

I've only had MS for 21 years. I guess I've made a few adjustments but no, I still do what I wanna do.

Which apparently doesn't include getting a stupid freakin' rocket launched... Shuttle launch delayed again to the 27th... Grrrr. They're messin' with my rodeo time now.

Tom

20% payraise Batman!

I don't know what I can do until I do it, and if I keep my fear of failing at bay; there's nothing I can't do.

"Fatigue makes cowards of us all". -the late great Vince Lombardi