Important news:
I am not an #MSWarrior. #MS isn’t a disease that responds to my determination, no matter how determined or stubborn I am about it.
Determination affects how I approach my condition, but it cannot determine how my MS progresses. Disease acceptance has been a journey for me, but an important part of being able to manage my symptoms and to keep pushing forwards.
When I was first diagnosed, resilience was doing things that people with MS generally don’t do - run marathons. Later, I realise that resilience is acknowledging what has changed without allowing those changes to erase that value of what is still possible. I can’t change the past and I can’t do the things I used to do, but I can try to control how I feel about it and how I try to take the next step forwards.
