Saturday, February 8, 2014

Spent a bit of my day chatting it up with...

My new MS group that I joined a few days ago.
So far they appear to be what one would expect a bunch of people from all over the world discussing new medical advances and issues with their symptoms etc. and positive ideas and sayings from the net, but no hidden monetary agendas and no one persons dominating the discussions.

It says that they're 7,113 members, I suppose that I was the one that made those last digits of 13.
Should I be concerned or superstitious?

Nah, but it does appear that they have many of the same concerns of any of us with MS.

One of the first posts I read a couple of days ago was quite controversial.
It had to do with a women with Multiple Sclerosis who had committed suicide.
Very sad, and she felt that she didn't want to be a burden and had no one to turn to.
Any of us with this disease think of that, since there will be a point when I personally know that I will be able to do very little for myself, not to mention to do anything for Hubby.
But no, I would never leave that legacy for my family, for I truly believe it can become hereditary...suicide that is...

Wait, listen... one of my Dad's partners, which they were four of them altogether,his cousin, in business had committed suicide when I was a child in the 1960's and he also had a young daughter at that time, years later she also committed suicide. This is the number for the suicide hotline:
1-800-SUICIDE (1-800-784-2433) Deaf Hotline: 1-800-799-4TTY (1-800-799-4889)

Most suicidal people I think forget that it is more than just them that are suffering when they chose to do this final act.
They forget that they will be leaving loved ones behind!
Oh, I don't know but to me it does seem like a selfish act.

My parents I think about whenever anyone complains about taking care of helpless ill people or elderly parents. I tell them I am jealous, since I never had my elderly parents around to complain about; they both died when I was in my thirties, back in 1982 and 1986.
Of course I would have loved for them to have had long healthy lives not being ill at all, but if they were I would have had to care for them,and I definitely would have! (Who knows if I would have complained too; who am I kidding, it's me, of course I would have!)



I know it's silly to think about all of this now...
But I do think whenever anyone has a chronic illness with a prognosis of getting worse not better... well, one can only imagine, true?
Oh poo, I really didn't want to go there after last night's oddity of a blog, which, by the way, was quite successful!

Some things in life are taboo to discuss in many cultures, but I must admit that article that was posted did open the discussion and many, sadly believed she did the right thing... I only hope that my words may have made some think of fighting like many of us do... MS may SUCK, but we fight for a cure daily, since we are not only our MS we are warriors, fighting a battle daily for a good cause to survive one day at a time...

Why I was called just yesterday about replacing my daily Copaxone 20 MG. injections, seven days a week with a new Copaxone 40MG. that is only injected three times a week! I said sign me up; it was just FDA approved on 1-28-14! How quickly it is getting to the market place, and YAY to that!

On that note of some more hope, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know who and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?
 
    

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