Multiple Sclerosis and a Second Wind

The last time I wrote a blog which included a musical reference I was on some pretty serious pain killers after my hip replacement and I got some serious (and quite deserved) flak from my sister for its sappiness. Well, we finally found the box with our music CDs in it today and it was nice to listen to a few tunes as we got on with our day’s work. Billy Joel was on the playlist and his song “You’re Only Human (Second Wind)” caught me up short. I started thinking about a “second wind” in relation to living with MS. In fact, an answer from a recent interview with Mike Jensen, a photographer living with multiple sclerosis, came to mind. When I asked Mike about what he might have learned from living with MS his answer was spot on, “This is a marathon,” he said, “there are no touchdowns, and the game is never over. Don’t sweat the small stuff. Life in general, and MS in particular, is about learning to accommodate loss, hopefully with some grace and your dignity intact.” Just like running a marathon, there are going to be times that we come up against “the wall”, there are going to be times we feel like we can’t go on, there will be times that we just want to chuck in all in and sit on the sideline… then there is the second wind. I don’t think an MS second wind is going to happen every day or every time I feel fatigued. In fact, I suspect that they only come on every few years and maybe only once or twice in an entire life with MS. Maybe it’s a...
Source: Life with MS - Category: Other Conditions Authors: Tags: MS and fatigue living with multiple sclerosis Source Type: blogs