Do you worry about the future?

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Hi everyone,

I visited the new group thread. Encouragement, but it is awaiting approval. I will check on it again.

This has been a great discussion!!

I to have no one who is interested in knowing anything about what I am living with. The MS site really doesn't apply to me because of the TN, So I am so grateful to finally find that I am not all alone in this.

I hate that anyone has to live with this, But thanks for being here.

It's been 11 years now, if I think about living through this for another 11 years, I am crushed. So I just don't! And when it's really really bad, I just say to myself, get through this day! You can do it, be calm, and it will end and tomarrow will be a better day.

I so appreciate the days when the pain releases me I want to jump up and yell YES! bring on the day. I have a bad habit of overdoing it though.

Oh well why not, the bad day is going to come no matter what I do.

After I could no longer work. Which was very hard to take. I decided to do some things I always wanted to do. My family thought I had gone crazy.

Came to Alaska, found the brother that didn't know I existed. Got involved with dog sledding. Now I live and travel on the Sea. Met a great guy that is making his dream come true, so now I am learning about commercial fishing. Can't do it myself. but I help sew fishing nets back together and do a lot of fetching tools. I meet such wonderful people on the docks.

So just because you can't do what you have done before, take hart, you still have value!! Accept what you can't change. Find what you can. I couldn't afford to do anything, but I did it anyway. Hard times and great times.

I had 3 kids. After 2 were grown and gone I brought my youngest on the journey.Grown & gone now too.At times she hated me, but she recently thanked me for bringing her to Alaska.Wow...shocker.

Well smile,take care, Joylee

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Loved reading about your life, Jackie. I think it would be so cool to live on a boat, go dog sledding, etc. I have a feeling I'd get seasick on those boats, though, but it would be worth it.

Thanks again for your inspiring words. We ought to copy and paste them in the encouragement group. I'm not sure why it's not just letting everyone join without permission. I had it set up as a public group. I'll have to check it out.

I'm going to cling to the phrase "One Day at a Time". That's been my problem lately...thinking too far off into the future.

~ Vicki

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Thanks for setting it up Vicki, I am now joining. There have been so many valuable comments posted already that i think it would be good to carry them over to the Encouragement site. Can you take Joylee life story across?

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I'm going to try and copy/paste it, El, or I might even see if she would want to do it...wouldn't want to mess anything up. lol.

Glad you joined, El. :)

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Yes best to check, i can see your a bright, motivated, up beat person by your emails Vic, the condition I know makes it difficult and clouds it, but it hasnt taken that away, it still shining though x

ps can you add your dice picture onto it as that has to be our motto!

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