Walking the Dog, Making Tea: What Routines Tell You About MS Progression

Our dog, Sadie, likes a good walk every day and I know it’s good for me as well.  I also try to get out on my bicycle every day (as it’s our main mode of transport, it’s easier than you think).  Simply sitting down to write a blog or the sequence of making a cup of tea are things which I do often enough to get used to how I do them. Over the past few days, or maybe even a couple of weeks now, I have noted how much more difficult these things are to accomplish. Trying to shuffle a deck of playing cards for a hand or two of gin rummy with Caryn or trying to add up the score.  Measuring ingredients out for a soda bread recipe I make very often.  All of these things are regular enough occurrences that I’ve grown accustom to my “new normal” speed, accuracy and stamina. And things are changing. The distance to the park where Sadie likes to run and chase the seagulls isn’t any further, the shops to which we cycle haven’t moved.  Still they feel further and more difficult to reach.  Milk, then tea, then sugar sometimes has me trying to put milk in the kettle and sugar in the pot.  I can now get about a paragraph written before I need to take a break when two house of writing to get a blog done was do-able.  The baking has ended up in the hen’s feed more oft than I’d like to remember… well, I’d actually like to remember, but that’s another blog. I actually think that it’s good for me to notice the determination of such abilities.  The things that w...
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