Up & Down
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What is it?
Is it me?
The weather?
Something I ate?
Something I didn’t?
Or, is it just plain MS?
I haven’t a clue what is causing mood swings lately.
Upbeat for a few days…followed by a few dark, sour ones.
I place much of the blame-game on multiple sclerosis. The cycle seems to ride like a tandem bike!
With MS, you are good for a day, week, month (even years for some) and then suddenly all heck breaks loose.
What gives? And who is at fault?
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When I’m up, everything is going well.
Eating right.
Reasonably productive. Getting things done.
Eating right.
Exercising. Stretching. Writing.
Content with myself, my being & all that is involved in life with a chronic disease.
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But whoa…during the down moods, dark clouds circle the drain like soap suds in the bathtub.
“Nothing matters,” I mutter to myself as workouts suffer, writing sucks, energy plummets and I eat as though I’m Augustus Gloop of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.”
It is also when my MS worsens.
Spasticity tightens. Drowsiness sets in. While my feet & hands work like they are stuck in a vat of lard.
Are the bad moods & MS one in the same? Hmm, sure seems as though.
One feeding the other feeding the other that feeds the other. (Redundant for dramatic effect)
A food chain of your spirit if you will.
“Stay positive,” they say. Which is easier said than done at times. (Ever try crawling up a mound of marbles?)
But it is what we must strive to do.
Life is a long series of ups & downs. Some moehills. Some mountains. Peaks & valleys.
And it is up to us not to get car-sick during the journey.
Stay up, my friend.
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