New to the Game?
Written by Ann Pietrangelo on March 28th, 2009 in Caregiver's Corner, General.
Jake offers advice for the MS Caregiver:
Here’s the truth as I see it. Once you become a caregiver to someone with MS, life will never again be as it was before the diagnosis. The faster you accept that as fact, the better off you’ll be and the quicker you’ll be able to move forward with our new goal of pretend normalcy. Whenever Mandy and I start down the road of wondering aloud about what our lives might have been like without MS, one of us will eventually look at the other and utter an oft-heard phrase: “It is what it is.”
Life doesn’t come with guarantees. No guarantee of happiness, no guarantee of financial security, no guarantee that you’ll have a big happy family, no guarantee of anything — except for one thing. That your life will be full of unexpected and unexplained events. You can tell yourself that there’s some grand plan, that things happen for a reason, but I’ve dismissed that line of thinking. We’ve given up all pretense of believing that some master plan simply called for Mandy to contract MS. To me, life is like running across an active battlefield with your eyes open, senses on fire, every ounce of your life’s training and experience being pulled into use. With all that going for you, sometimes you’re just going to get hit.
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