This week I hit another milestone in my journey with MS. I went mobile! After 8 years of walking with this disease I have come to the point where I have to roll!. This past year I have experienced a steady decline in my walking. To go any distance I have to work hard to push a walker, and have begun to realize how much energy I can conserve by either using a wheelchair or mobility scooter.
With my doctor's approval, this past week a brand-new, spic-n-span, viper blue Pride Celebrity Scooter entered my life to give me a freedom that has been missing for the past 8 years. The night of its arrival I took a 'walk' through the neighborhood with 'Katie', my yellow-lab Service Dog, and 'Thumbs' my personal nurse at my side. There was a freedom I haven't felt for years as I zoomed down the sidewalk admiring my neighbors' flowerbed, and watching the sunset over the trees!
I am grateful that my MS has progressed slowly. It has taken 8 years to slow me down to becoming 'mobile'. I know I must work on my balance and keep walking as long as I can. I hope I never reach the point where I cannot stand on my own two feet. And yet I am glad I relented to the scooter as I now can do and see those things which for so long I had to forfeit because of my physical weakness.
It is truly a "Milestone" in my journey with MS. Another mile, another stone, and I will always remember it with a thankful heart.
Keep walking, my friends, and when you 'gotta roll', then roll with those punches. Never stop moving forward and upward for the journey is awesome!!
This gal now rolls at 6 MPH!
- It's not about me
- It's about us...about we!
2 comments:
As another who also has MS, you are an inspiration Sue...keep on truckin' no matter how you have to do it!
Diana, Oklahoma City
I met you, Sue, around 2002 at a singles retreat near Uniontown PA. You were very inspirational then and I still think of you often. I've been watching this blog and notice, with some concern, that it has been over a year since the last post. I hope you are not unable to blog. I am wishing you well and hoping to see another blog in the future. God's blessings, Beth
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