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An Important Thing Non-Disabled People May Not Understand
A morning when I wake up, and can get up to do whatever I want and need to do, what a glorious thing that is!
I am a mildly disabled person. A person with the Chronic Illness of Multiple Sclerosis(MS). I have also been afflicted with a broken ankle a few years ago, so I have a good understanding of what if is like, when waking up, but being unable to easily leap out of bed and get up immediately.
Even at the moment, when my ankle is well and truly healed, and my MS in remission, I sometimes have balance issues, so take my time in the process of getting out of bed, lest I fall over and hurt myself, (again).
Not surprisingly, people with MS are more likely to suffer with falls than those without MS. Muscle weakness, and balance problems are quite common symptoms with Multiple Sclerosis, as I well know!
So all of you abled people out there, when you next leap out of bed and easily rush to get on with your great life, please spare a thought for us less-abled folk. We’re not lazy, we’re disabled, and we’d love to be able to rush into life the sme way you do, but we have to take it easy, so we can go on doing as much as possible.
Fatigue is another common MS symptom, a deep feeling of not being able to do a single bit more. It is a crushing thing…
