A friend posted a comment on my Facebook page recently, mentioning that I seemed a lot better now than when she met me years ago at a particular event. I’m not sure exactly when that event was, but I suspect it was probably in the early 2010s.
I’m certainly better than I would have been back then, physically. I was just diagnosed with MS, getting used to injecting myself once a week (ouch!), and wondering what on earth was I going to be doing with my life. Emotionally, spiritually even too, I’m am going much these days.
There’s a common little phrase used by some people who have Multiple Sclerosis = I have MS, but MS doesn’t have me. I certainly agree with this idea, in my own case. Yes, I have that chronic illness, but I also have so many much more uplifting and heartwarming things in my life.
I have wonderful caring family and friends, I have a sense of purpose in my life, I have a lovely community I work for. All of these things keep my heart warm and beating strongly. And I have my creative writing, this blog (and others), my books, poetry, works in progress, and the newsletter I edit, the Mallala Crossroad Chronicle.
These things are there, they are going along well, and I am in such a good space in life. With the medication I am on for MS working well, sometimes I can almost forget I even have MS, and that is a good thing for sure.
And as I live in the country, Nature is always there with me, trees, birds, other creatures, and the sky with clouds, I love them all, and I feel they love me too!
Mick, Jane and Me 