Happy New Year!
Happy New Year everyone! I hope your holiday season was filled with laughter and a lot of love. As we come to the end of the year, I have to have to look back at the year I had and reflect and appreciate the life I have.
In 2019 I experienced a lot of highs and a few devastatingly lows. I travelled to 2 places I've always wanted to go to, Niagara Falls and New York. Both experiences were beyond my expectations. I love traveling to new places, experiencing new adventures, trying new food, seeing sights I've always dreamed of, and seeing how other people live. Traveling never gets boring and I never take the opportunity to travel for granted.
This year I decided to do something for myself and pursue something I've been wanting to do for awhile now. I started this blog. I started it with the intention just to write my feelings and thoughts about MS and some the of the things my mom and I experience with this MS journey. That intention is still and will always be there. But if one person reads it and can relate or gain some new insight, then my job is done. And if no one reads it, that's ok too. I'm coming from a pure and honest place and that's something I can live comfortably with. Thank YOU for listening.
My biggest highs and proudest moments this year come from my moms accomplishments. She got to share her Woodstock experience with the local paper. How many people get to say they were apart of that and get to share their experience? She was chosen to be an ambassador and storyteller for a pharmaceutical company and share her experience on what's like to have MS. It was scary and exhilarating and I couldn't be more proud of her. We also were featured in an MS magazine and won a contest for caregivers. With each of the great accomplishments, we were hand-in-hand cheering and supporting one another one. She says she couldn't do any of this without the love and support of her children, but I couldn't do it without her.
With all the great highs we experienced, we also experienced some divesting news regrading her health. She was diagnosed with Stage 3 kidney failure. She was also diagnosed with moderate to severe cognitive dysfunction. Life isn't all sunshine and rainbows. Bad shit happens. But it's how you deal with that bad shit that matters. You can run and hide. You can act out and rebel. You can say woe is me. But in this family, we get up every day and CHOOSE to live. We CHOOSE life. We CHOOSE to keep going. We deal with everything one by one as they come.
I hope that 2020 continues to bring us new and exciting adventures. I hope to keep talking to whoever wants to listen. I hope to gain new memories that will last a lifetime.
Be safe and have a wonderful and happy new year.
In 2019 I experienced a lot of highs and a few devastatingly lows. I travelled to 2 places I've always wanted to go to, Niagara Falls and New York. Both experiences were beyond my expectations. I love traveling to new places, experiencing new adventures, trying new food, seeing sights I've always dreamed of, and seeing how other people live. Traveling never gets boring and I never take the opportunity to travel for granted.
This year I decided to do something for myself and pursue something I've been wanting to do for awhile now. I started this blog. I started it with the intention just to write my feelings and thoughts about MS and some the of the things my mom and I experience with this MS journey. That intention is still and will always be there. But if one person reads it and can relate or gain some new insight, then my job is done. And if no one reads it, that's ok too. I'm coming from a pure and honest place and that's something I can live comfortably with. Thank YOU for listening.
My biggest highs and proudest moments this year come from my moms accomplishments. She got to share her Woodstock experience with the local paper. How many people get to say they were apart of that and get to share their experience? She was chosen to be an ambassador and storyteller for a pharmaceutical company and share her experience on what's like to have MS. It was scary and exhilarating and I couldn't be more proud of her. We also were featured in an MS magazine and won a contest for caregivers. With each of the great accomplishments, we were hand-in-hand cheering and supporting one another one. She says she couldn't do any of this without the love and support of her children, but I couldn't do it without her.
With all the great highs we experienced, we also experienced some divesting news regrading her health. She was diagnosed with Stage 3 kidney failure. She was also diagnosed with moderate to severe cognitive dysfunction. Life isn't all sunshine and rainbows. Bad shit happens. But it's how you deal with that bad shit that matters. You can run and hide. You can act out and rebel. You can say woe is me. But in this family, we get up every day and CHOOSE to live. We CHOOSE life. We CHOOSE to keep going. We deal with everything one by one as they come.
I hope that 2020 continues to bring us new and exciting adventures. I hope to keep talking to whoever wants to listen. I hope to gain new memories that will last a lifetime.
Be safe and have a wonderful and happy new year.
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