Sometimes, It Only Hits You That You Have MS When MS Hits You

I wake up with symptoms of multiple sclerosis, I spend my day with them and I go to bed with them.  For the most part I’ve learned to live my life with, around, over, and sometimes under my MS. I guess I’ve gotten used to my new normal.  Maybe that’s what makes it so much harder when MS jumps up and slaps me in the face. Yesterday was a lovely, spring morning as I took the bus home from the Dublin train.  I’d been in the capitol for a meeting of the MS & Me bloggers for MS Ireland. It was a quick trip up and I behaved myself far more than I’d expected on the eve of St Patrick’s Weekend. Still, I was knackered as I’m still recovering from my latest MS Thing. After several hours on trains and buses, I was feeling a bit cramped up and ready to be home.  We passed a lovely stretch of canal with a well-tended footpath for walkers.  Loads of people were availing themselves of the first bright sun in months and stretching their legs along the banks. “Oh,” I thought to myself, “I should go for a walk when I get home.”  And then it hit me…The kind of effortless, long-striding walk I was observing in so many happy-faced people isn’t the kind of “walk” I can take anymore. Sure, I get out and walk (or bike) as we still haven’t purchased a car.  My walking, however, isn’t for the joy of the stretch.  My head isn’t held high and my arms swinging at my sides.  I don’t feel a spongy spring off my toes.  Hell, I can’t even feel my toes...
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