MS MuSings
A Monthly Online Magazine
by and for those with MS,
Issue 118
July, 2009
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MS MuSings A Monthly Online Magazine by and for those with MS, Issue 118 July, 2009 |
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Autoimmune Defined
from a Layman's
Perception.
Autoimmune:
Going from Speedy Gonzales Zip
to snails trail pace.
Or
The"Flip Syndrome" due to the fact each
day
brings a change in activity placement
zone.
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As the sun rises each day it does not
begin with
What can I do-What can I do, but
rather "What's Next!"
for the pain and uncertainty scale.
Amazingly with technology what it is today
there is
not yet a cure for these diseases that
steal dreams,
and quite often put people in the
impoverished state,
oft defined as non-productive, worthless,
even a drag
on society, as they adopt the theme of
"One Day At A Time"
and their pain and suffering becomes a
silent issue with
which they live, doing the best they can
do.
On good days when they are feeling half
way decent
they are prone to park a block away from
their destinations
to avoid hate and ridicule by the general
public.
Wheel chaired folks and those in casts
visible are seldom targets,
for folks judgments, but those who suffer
silently with good/bad
days are targets for many mobile.
The really wondrous part of this equation
is the compassion and
courage of those tagged with autoimmune
diseases.
Dealing with constant interruptions of
daily mobility they tend to
isolate themselves to block the coverlet
of distain many seem to
need to spread over them, adding to
existing grief.
Many of these folks have active lives
unknown simply because
they no longer punch a time clock.
The greatest sadness in this scenario is
those that have good health
spend their time criticizing `rather than
donating or pushing legislature to
make funds available for cure research.
These Autoimmune Disease Struck Folks
can make no long range plans, or short
ones for that matter.
I am no doctor, but I am the mother of a
daughter with Lupus, Raynauds,
Pulmonary Distress Syndrome, and a couple
additions of late.
The roads she's traveled are too numerous
to relate in this missive.
Attached (link below) is a page that gives
names of these diseases, and there are
none they won't embrace
given the right time and circumstances!
Might you or a loved one be the next
diagnosed?
By: Sherry Kersey
"Mother of a Lupus Survivor"
Who nourishes abandoned animals.
2009
Reach Sherry by email to comment:
skersey@centurytel.net
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