On Dark Days With Multiple Sclerosis, Sometimes a Rainbow Breaks Through

This week began the Celtic Spring season. Before you look out at the snow banks or tell me that Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, so you’ve six more weeks of winter, this is an old tradition here in Ireland. For us, spring starts on the first of February with the Biddy’s Day celebrations, which have been modernized into the festival of St Brigid’s Day. But whether you call it spring or winter, it’s still the season of cold wind and driving rain. But now and again, the sun’s long, low rays break through the clouds, even if it’s still raining. Ever since my first winter here, back in 2005, I’ve referred to this as “rainbow weather.” Sunshine Through the Rain At some point in just about every day’s showers, enough sun peaks through a crack in the gray (often you can’t see whence that sunshine comes), and somewhere a rainbow forms. Some of them are faint fragments of arc, some brilliantly full, and some are even double bands of arched color extending, one above the other, from mountains to sea. On the dark and rainy days that multiple sclerosis (MS) can bring into our lives, it can feel like we’re stuck in the depths of winter with such a long time to wait until spring. Sometimes I look out from my bedcovers and look for something bright or, if I cannot see the sun in my life with MS, I hope to see the effects of that brightness. I look for an MS rainbow as evidence that there is sun someplace. The Kind Words That Form a Rainbow The bright patches o...
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