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Living Well — What It Means For Me
I can’t tell anyone else how to live their life well, because I don’t know what that means to anyone else. Afterall, we are all unique, with our own needs and wants.
I can only tell of what Living Well means to me — what I do, and how it makes my life one that I consider to be a Well one. I do this from my own thoughts, ideas and actions, but also take into account my health as is currently assessed by my General Practioner, who knows me and my health better than anyone else.
I also have a specialist, a neurologist, who I see regularly, but nowhere near as often as I see my GP. There medical people send each other information as is usual, if there are test results from for instance bloods being taken, or a new medication begun.
I have a chronic illness, you see, one which can cause severe mobility results, at its worst, when sufferers may be confined to a wheelchair …
That chronic illness is Multiple Sclerosis, which I was diagnosed with in early 2010, after a fall, and feelings of weakness on the right side of my body, particularly my legs.
That diagnosis lead to the neurologist, and medications, and more recently one medication that has been so effective, I currently feel like there’s nothing wrong with me, and I am currently walking around two kilometres a day, where at the time…
