Day after day after day, the MS warrior slugs it out with
multiple sclerosis. Sometimes it’s like dancing on tiptoes around the savage
beast, trying not to awaken him and begin another battle. On other occasions,
it’s all-out warfare.
Certainly, the experience differs, depending upon the type
of multiple sclerosis one is enduring. So far, I count myself blessed to be in
the relapse-remitting MS (RRMS) category. It seems far simpler than the other,
more progressive, forms of the chronic neurological condition.
(READ: Reviewing
the four types of multiple sclerosis here.)
RRMS means, although MS remains a repetitive challenge, we
sometimes get a break from the worst of it.
Dictionaries may define “repetitive” with terms like automatic,
boring, dreary, dull, humdrum, mechanical, monotonous, mundane, recurrent, routine,
tedious, tiresome, unchanging, and unvaried. Many of those words fit life with
MS (especially in its progressive forms), but a few certainly don’t.
MS is recurrent, but
it’s definitely not unchanging or unvaried.
Although multiple sclerosis symptoms and experience can
change, each time they crop up, the overall battle can feel like a never-ending
struggle. Several of the most troublesome features of this disease seem to show
up during each exacerbation (or flare-up), and often almost continuously.
"Brace yourself, body," says the MSer. "Here we go again."
The most persistent ongoing problems with MS may be crippling
fatigue, dizzying vertigo, strange numbness, and inexplicable tingling. When
those symptoms manifest themselves repeatedly, it’s like a bad echo.
Perhaps someday soon, an MS cure will silence such
resounding.
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