Me and my three-wheel bike!
Summer time is tough for those of us who are living with MS. It's not just that for many of us, our unique soundtrack of symptoms is amplified. For us, leaving the house can be a scary decision-making process filled with all sorts of “if... then” speculation. Those feelings are turned up a notch as we are following our friends who are enjoying every ray of the summer sun and posting in our news feed. (Not that there is anything wrong with that… just saying). And while many of us have an established coping strategy to help manage the envy that goes hand-in-hand with living with this variable disease, it's really tough (for me) to look at the posts made by people who DO have MS. You know, those pics of long walks down (what we call in New Jersey) the shore, or hikes that find an amazing view at the summit, or a bike-a-thon for a favorite nonprofit-dot-org.
But… Maaaaa!Why can’t I have that other kind of MS?? All the other kids at school do! It’s not fair!!!