Only 2 weeks since I was prescribed antibiotics for yet another UTI and today I have more for yet another water infection! This is getting silly!
I’m definitely adding cinnamon to my shopping order!
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Tag: #mscantstopme
I’m naked
That’s why I feel naked!..
Lost my sparkle
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Clear your mind of can’t
You can’t, is all I hear from my body!
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Happiness is…
A moment in the garden tidying & now were both walking like 90 year olds!
Thought I’d have a bath to ease my aches and pains, forgot just how much the heat and humidity effects my MS!
It was more like bathing in cement when I tried to move!
Sooooooo, PJs are on! Hot water bottle on our backs & a takeaway ordered!
All about balance!
How do I stay positive?
“When people ask me why am I so positive, I simply reply why not?” – Vix Edwards
- I try to lift weights once a week
- I try to practice Pilates 3 times a week
- I try to practice Yoga almost everyday
I also have ms every single day but i don’t have to try with that one!
MS isn’t easy, there’s something different every day, but this doesn’t stop me living my life the fullest that I can!
I do my best to stay positive, which is where my exercise comes into play.
Negativity is soul draining and exceptionally hard for me to get out of when it has me! I should imagine this is the same for anyone that has ever had a low mood day!
Imagine a tree, at the top of it is where the positivity is & this is where I aim to start my day!
Lets say I wake up and its a beautiful day, sun shining, birds are singing, and I’m at the highest point of my positivity.
I sit up in bed and as I move my legs, my right leg is a little stiff. Hmm, that’s ok, I can handle that, except for when I start to walk out of the bedroom and I have to drag my leg, this knocks me down in my positivity.
So now, I’m no longer at the top of the tree. Now I’m on the branch below where I started, but thats ok, because I was at the top when I started my day, I am still closer to being at my most positive than my most negative & because I try to always see the positive in things, I should be able to get back to the top fairly quickly.
Remember though, I said this isn’t easy! Sometimes we come across things in life that will test us, sometimes we think we are going to break and never be the same person ever again. I’ve been there! Not just with my health, so I know how hard positivity can be, I’m not the same person, no, I use these experience’s as lessons and I grow from them!
When there’s only 2 choice’s, positivity & negaticity, I know which one I’d rather make!
“Train your mind to see the good in everything. Positivity is a choice. The happiness of your life depends on your thoughts.” – Marcandangel
Whats happened to my concentration! 🤔
When ur MS isn’t behaving and you have very little concentration!
Yeah… so, this happened when I was creating today!
Chopping veg to go in slow cooker when I saw this sad face! 😥🔪🍆🔪🍅🔪🌶🔪😥
Vix – 1 MS – 0
Food is cooking nicely, managed to get myself another healthy lunch as well!
I’d call that a win! 👏
MS effecting my speech…
Another referral due to my MS!
Its crazy how much of ‘you’ MS affects!
My voice hasn’t sounded the same for around 4 years!
Nothing major, I just constantly sound as though I have a cold!
The most annoying thing now is the amount of times I get asked to repeat myself!
I can’t tell what volume I should be using so can occasionally speak very loud!
The worst is when my voice becomes a whisper and I slurr my words!
All because MS has affected my swallow!
When I used to get asked if my swallow was okay at routine check ups, I always thought the consultant meant ‘do I choke often’
Answer: “occasionally”
I never linked the question to the problems I have with my voice! And yet it makes total sense!
Doh!!! 👅😝
Making a down day happier…
Having a pretty shitty day today tbh, so fatigued its unreal! Every day lately seems like I have to push myself harder, just to move my body and that’s without actually thinking about what I want my body to do! That takes even more effort! Long gone are those days that I can do things without thinking!
Right now, MS sucks but guess what, I was looking through my pictures on my phone, to find something that reflects my current mood…
That’s when I saw this photo and everything changed!
This photo was taken last Sunday when I yes me, drove the furthest I have ever driven (90 miles to South Yorkshire) to see my MS sister & the rest of our faaaamily! Of course I had my DebbieRahRah as SatDeb & navigator. What makes me feel more proud, was that I drove without feeling nervous!
This beautiful lady is my Kindred Spirit, she has helped me through my MS more than she’ll take credit for! I only need to see her smiley face and my mood lifts!
Thank you Sarah Hickman for making my day cheerier!
(And I know exactly what she’s saying when she reads this… Either “oh behave” or “stoppppp”)
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Living life the MegaSpecial way! 