Today I had the day off and I watched Oprah. She had on some celebs that have been diagnosed with chronic life threatening illnesses. Her main guest was Montel Williams who has been living with mutiple sclerosis for 10 years.
Anyway.........All these life threatening diseases such as WG have the same coping type symptoms and the same way to deal with the disease. Depression is a key factor in a chronic illness and all the celebs interviewed expressed a grieving period followed by a "new normal".
As I read through some of the posts from the last few days....The new Normal is what comes up over and over again. This was the best advice I got when I entered this forum. It certainly changed my outlook.
My WG has not hit as hard as others...but it is still a life changing event for a typically active person like myself. I tend to want to keep up my busy schedule and even make myself busier, maybe to prove this WG that I am the boss. Todays program and the posts from today have reminded me that even though I am in charge, I am not necesarily the boss.
I can, however, decide how to deal with what I have been given and move forward from there.
thanks for listening
coffeelover, Lisa
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