Living Well Now... even when you certainly don't feel like it.

Living well now is a state of mind as much as it is a state of being.  Anyone with Multiple Sclerosis can tell you about waking up and not having the strength or maybe not even the ability to get up in the morning, stretch out your legs and make it to the bathroom.  Well the reality of the pain and anxiety associated with MS is apparent - but so are many other things.  Think about this:

1. You don't have terminal cancer!  
2. You're alive and able to talk about it to someone who hasn't quite learned yet to live well with MS...  
3. Someone on this earth is with you and wants to do whatever they can to help you through your journey with MS; maybe its your family, maybe its me...
4. Your creator will never burden you with anything you can not handle...
5. The sun is up, the world is turning, there are still places you haven't seen and things you haven't done...
6. You can manage your pain... 
7. You can get past the psychological trauma from MS and live appreciating every day you get to live - where there is a will, there is a way...

Just take a moment to think of one good thing in your life every day and write it down on the calendar.  When the month changes, go back and look at each one and read it out loud to yourself or anyone.  You will smile.  You will know that you can push past the reality of MS on to the reality that your life is moving right along...  go with it!  It may not happen in a day or a week or even a month... but you will soon realize there are thousands of reasons to get up despite the condition.  You'll rise, think of the good things, look in the mirror (when you finally do get to the bathroom) and say "I'm going to celebrate life today, such as it is, and live well now."  Today really is the first day of the rest of your life...  tvcc

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