| As an MS victim individual, I never dreamed that I | | | | simple anymore. Everything, it seemed, was now a |
| would be disabled. Who would, unless they were in to | | | | major task, an incredible object to be overcome.At |
| nightmares? Who would ever expect to become a | | | | every turn, the same ugly question loomed, "Should I do |
| burden to others, dependent on friends and loved ones | | | | it myself, or ask someone with legs that work to do it |
| for things that we all take for granted? Sure, these | | | | for me?" Tough test for an individual who has been |
| things do happen, but they would never happen to me. | | | | independent. I suspect that this feeling of frustration |
| Right?I am certain that most of us MSers share this | | | | has engulfed virtually every person with a debilitating |
| basic feeling, regardless of gender. What I believe | | | | disease or physical injury. Our response to this critical |
| matters most are what we do with our lives once the | | | | question is the subject of this article.For slow learners, |
| reality sets in. Maybe, it doesn't fully sink in for some | | | | like myself, who resist what ~ we must come to |
| time? It didn't for me. I was going to beat this thing, | | | | realize ~ would have saved other people an incredible |
| bounce back, overcome the dread disease, in the | | | | amount of frustration, this is an "Open~book" test. |
| same way I had always successfully overcome | | | | Question: "Should we routinely ask others to help us?" |
| obstacles, by shear determinations: resolve, action, faith | | | | Answer: "We should ask for help."If our marriages and |
| and "Will~Power!" This is a test.Well, it was most | | | | relationships survive, we learn to appreciate our |
| frustrating to discover that my old methods of passing | | | | partner's commitments to us ~ in ways well beyond |
| the tests were largely ineffective in the battle to be | | | | what we might have ever imagined that person |
| normal again. I had the resolve, just not the endless | | | | capable of. Maybe, we might wonder, if the situations |
| reservoir of energy from which I could always draw.I | | | | were reversed, would I have been so committed? I |
| would take actions, affirmative actions! Some of them | | | | hope so, but really ~ I wonder ~ would I have |
| impulsive and not affirmed by my physicians and | | | | been?When we fail to ask our partners or others for |
| professionals who have had experience with | | | | assistance, even when we want to believe we can do |
| "Problem~Patients," like me. I would become a test for | | | | it ourselves, we put even more of a burden on the |
| them. I would even become their problem. Yeah, as if | | | | very ones we don't want to bother. Hey, they are |
| they didn't already have enough tests of their own | | | | bothered! I see it is a selfish act to cause people who |
| going on in their professional and personal lives?OK, I | | | | care about us to worry that we might cause injury to |
| would defeat this deceitful devil then with faith. If I | | | | ourselves or to others.Perhaps, my limited energy |
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| can be reunited. Heb.11:1 says, "Faith is the substance of | | | | others speed up their learning curves. Huh? Is this the |
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| Simple things, like taking out the trash, were not so | | | | |