Resist the Urge to Find a Cure

The only advice that I would offer someone who has just been diagnosed with MS, or any other terrible disease for that matter, is to resist the urge to find a cure. Unless you are skilled medical researcher or a brilliant doctor, you will not find a cure. I am sorry that this may sound harsh but it is the God's honest truth and I am simply saving you from yourself. Spending days and days on end trying to find out why you are in this place and how to get out of it will probably only lead to eye strain.

The internet will tell you a million things and only about ten of those things will be accurate. It will become an obsession taking you in a many different directions. At about 3AM on your tenth straight day in front of your computer, you will believe that you have found some amazing breakthrough that no one else has noticed. You will print it up and run to your significant other shouting something like, "All I have to do is avoid peas and the color teal for the rest of my life and I will be cured." He will roll over, grab the phone from you as you try to call your neurologist, and ask you to come to bed. The next day you realize that your new found piece of knowledge is bullshit and all you achieved is a night without sleep. You will literally sit in front of the computer for hours trying to figure out what you did wrong to curse you with this. Guess what... you will never figure out it... as even the most brilliant of medical professionals do not know. People have dedicated their entire careers trying to figure it out, and I will tell you that most of them are not using Google as their primary source of information. Leave it to them to do it.

I am not saying don't keep yourself educated and up to date on all the latest information, that is your duty and what you should be doing at all times. Emotions are emotions, allowing yourself to be sad and confused to why this is happening to you is just as important as allowing yourself to be happy. Just don't let it consume you, by trying to find all the answers. It is rabbit hole that you can easily find yourself falling down and the internet never ends...

They have not even figured out what causes this disease; do you think that they are close to a cure? I believe that the chant for everyone who is ill with this disease should be, "FIND A CAUSE!" Let us start with that. Let's try and make this the last generation that has to deal with this...

BUT RIGHT NOW...

Your cure is taking care of yourself by eating right, getting a good night sleep, taking your medication, and exercising. Enjoy what you have when you have it. This disease will take what it wants when it wants. Don't worry you will have time to sit in front of the computer when you do not have the strength to do anything else. Obsessing about those two fucking letters is the last thing that anyone with MS should be doing. So don't waste today because you HAVE IT, USE IT! Take control of MS by not letting everything in your life revolve around it. This disease will deal you some really low blows, stuttering through a sentence because your brain can't tell your mouth to say ink, tremors as you try to button your pants, being too tired to do anything... wait sorry I was trying to be positive... and I completely lost... my...

what was I saying????

Oh yeah... Fuck MS.