Considering the amount of pain I am in and the level of my Fatigue it still amazes me how I manage to do what I do!
This is why I am virtually kicking my heels together, dancing and celebrating my love for pilates and how with this I am literally finding my feet 👏
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Feel for u all today!
What a great Xmas it’s been, a whole 10 days of no work for DebbieRahRah & most people! The longest time Deb has had off over Christmas since she started working in year dot! (🙊)
Wishing you all a fast trouble free day & hoping your alarms are still in one piece!
It’s not really their fault, you set them after all! 😉
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Nooooooo! Back to Alarms waking us up tomorrow then! 😠
It’s been a lovely 10 days of DebbieRahRah at home! We both wish it could last longer but keeping Fugly (our bungalow) isn’t free & due to me being unable to work…
She’s such a good un!
Me however, what little sleep I get & how much I kick and punch her in the night I don’t know how she wakes me! Unless it’s for the gym of course!
I just want to remind people that I don’t punch and kick my wife for fun! In fact I have no control and no memory of it! It doesn’t wake me, I only know when I wake in the morning and she’s slept on the sofa!
No gym for me in the morning, I think in fact my appointment tomorrow is much better! I know, I know, is that possible I hear you cry!?
Yes it is… because I’m off to see a man about some pain relief! Yep, that day is finally here! Time to find out what Mr Pain clinic man can do for my back this time!…
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Before the networks jam, before your glass gets to full, I’d just like 2 wish everyone a very happy, prosperous & healthy 2016!
Thank you for your support this year!
Let’s make 2016 a year to remember for only good reasons!
Go make memories!
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I am a strong woman!
I don’t sit around feeling sorry for myself, nor let people mistreat me.
I don’t reaping to people who dictate to me or try to bring me down. If I fall I will rise up even stronger becasue I am a survivor not a victim.
I am in control of my life and there is nothing I can’t achieve!
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Always begin and end each day with a positive thought.
Life is too short to be anything but positive and happy.
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Improved pain scale, much better than the one with the faces! I especially like number 9: ‘Mauled by a bear – or ninjas’
The regular pain scale used by the NHS here in the UK
I personally prefer the humour to the first one
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Christmas shopping done & so am I! Done in & in so much pain! Sat in car waiting for DebbieRahRah whilst watching all the crazy people look for parking spaces!
The world goes mad at this time of year! This is when you never forget what month your in!
#Christmas #crazy #shopping #itschristmas
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Arghhhh! I’m so frustrated!
Learning new skills when you have MS is like trying to ride a bike backwards!
You need patience of a saint and do not cry when you fall off! Just pick the bike up and away you go again!
No one said it would be easy!
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Today I went to an exercise class purely for people that have MS. This class is funded and run by the MS Society at my local Leisure Centre. It’s on twice a month and I go to it whenever I possibly can.
I’ve been going to these classes on and off since the summer. They are challenging, tiring and great fun!
The class is taught by Laura, a wonderful fitness instructor I know from a class called ‘Forever fit’. This class is for seniors and is on after the Pilates class I attend on a Wednesday.
All of the exercises in the MS class are done whilst sitting down, which means that everyone can take part, no one is excluded from these classes!
Who’d have thought marching your legs and lifting light weights with opposite arms at the same time would be so confusing!
Who’d have thought lifting your legs whilst tapping your feet forwards, centre, back, opposite leg and repeat would be so confusing!
It’s like patting your head with one hand and rubbing your tummy with the other! The brain has to do two things at the same time with both hands, you have to really concentrate.
So let’s now imagine everyone in the room is tapping the floor with their feet at the same time, great!
But then…
What, what, someone is out of time! Now I’m getting confused because the beat is changing. It was then that I realised the lady wasn’t tapping out of time but her right leg had started to tremor and was tapping uncontrollably. Now everyone had lost their concentration, we all started to laugh as the lady with the tremor tried to control it!
It’s moments like those that are priceless, when a group of people all with the same debilitating disease can laugh at it. When we see the funny side to our ‘uniquely different’ debilitating disease!
This is where my other saying for ‘MS’ comes from, ‘ManySmiles’
If you know anyone with MS (if you have MS yourself you’ll ‘get this’), take notice next time you are in the company of these wonderfully MegaSpecial people. See how much they smile! Hear how much they laugh! Then notice that it’s normally at ourselves!
I had a lovely card off one of the ladies at the exercise class today, unfortunately it’s in the car and with the temperature somewhere near 0°c I’ll leave it there and share it with you tomorrow! All I’ll say is, it’s beautiful! Its so lovely that I needed to hug her directly after reading it!
That was my workout done for the day!
Deb got home from work at 17:45 had a cup of tea and went off to the gym! What a difference in us both!
1: We now exercise regularly
2: We eat healthily
3: I only did one work out today!
Yep! What a difference! I hung up my Wonderwoman suit! I said to myself (and Deb of course) when we got back from our lovely holiday that it was definitely time for me to apply the brakes, so that is exactly what I have been doing! And I feel proud for doing it! I hurt more because the hormones released when exercising help me manage my pain but, I feel proud!
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Living life the MegaSpecial way! 