You know you have MS when....

[Lulu54]

Hi all, borrowing a thread theme from my heart site, I would invite you all to contribute a thought or two if you have any because we all know that laughter really is the best or next to best medicine!

So here's some to start us off-

You know you have MS

.... when your medications have their own mini-fridge.


.... when you know LP does not mean a long-playing record.

[Quixotic1]

When you assume the vibration under your foot is "Phantom Cell Phone Call" and then jump and scream when it suddenly moves - "it" being the purring cat.

[Heather3418]

This would be a great list to hand your Neuro's.  THEN they may understand how truly strange the world of MS is for the patient.

This actually would make a great book...whatcha think LAURA?  LuLu? LAURA.  Please don't confuse me anymore...remember, I have MS...

[Cre8_it]

I had to write the word Black on our ad for the car.  I would'nt finish the ad because I thought that I spelled it wrong!  Even now it does not seem right to me?!

[ShadowsSister]

When you replace all your china with paper plates
when your hands and feet tingle and burn like they have frost bite and it's in the 90's
when your legs keep walking after you have sat down
when black holes block out half the page of a book
when you trip over "Nothing"
May all of you have a restful night..
Hugs on the winds..((((~!~)))) to each of you

[doublevision1]

You know you have MS

...when you're washing the dishes and they leap out out of your hand, seemingly with a mind of their own since you didn't feel yourself dropping them (or holding them in the first place).

...when you're constantly having to replace broken dishes (and cups and glasses and coffee pots...)

[Lulu54]

I know I have MS when I can't remember if my name is Laura or Lulu!!!!

yes, in case you noticed, I have been schizophrenic in my posts today and using my old name :-)

that's ok, I'm among friends!

L (I'm safe with just the initial)

[trueblue06]

When you have to turn the volume down to concentrate and understand a comment someone else is making about the show or movie you are watching.

When background noise drives you crazy and you just want to scream everyone just shut up I can't understand a thing!

When you can't multi-task anymore and can only do one VERY simple thing at a time.

When you find yourself standing blankly in front of the refrigerator and you have no idea what you are there for.

When you are cooking from a recipe book, you have all the ingredients in front of you and you just can't work out how you are ever going to get through it all and finish it.

When your peripheral vision fails and someone comes up along side you and you completely freak out because you didn't see them coming and they scare the c*** out of you!

When you stare at the keyboard and can't find the letter/symbol/number/ then after a minute or two of searching you can't remember what it was you were looking for in the first place.

When you used to touch type so accurately and you now see your words on the screen typed backwards or letters in the wrong place, ( why won't my fingers do what my brain is telling them? )

You are in the Neuro's office and he says "Do you have any new symptoms?", your mind goes blank and even though you have heaps you can't remember even one.

You forget to take your list of new symptoms with you to the appointment.
You forget you did take the list and it is right there in your hand!

You flunk all the neuro's tests.

[Cre8_it]

You know you have ms when you collapse to the floor, but say ,"Wow, I'm lucky that the laundry basket saved me from hitting my head on the wall!" instead of being in a panic!!  Ha Ha Ha

Zeta

[Rena705]

Have to agree with Andi on this one...I think my hubby has some sort of psychic power because when I say something like oishabollabul he knows I mean let's invite Mom over for a bbq this week!  Creepy at the very least!

But it is funny Andi...it has to be or we would go nuts right?!  hehe

Rena

[doublevision1]

...when you punch the keys on a calculator and wonder why nothing is happening on the Excel spreadsheet on your computer screen.


I'm serious, I just did it this morning when I was doing some work from home!!

[Wobbly]

HAHAHAHAHAA...you guys are so funny...

when your talking to your family and they complete the sentence for you, because you lost what you were saying......

maybe not funny...but real...

wobbly
LL

[Momzilla]

This is a good one, Lulu!

Keep the laughs coming!

Zilla*

[Lulu54]

Heather,
I had to fire the fries after my HA - that's my kind of typing!!!Thanks for not one but two good laughs.

[Heather3418]

make that FRIES....again you know you have MS when you can't spell or remember simple words....

[Heather3418]

You know you have MS when you talk among friends about the McDonald Criteria and your friends say, "Don't they just have the BEST french fires?"

[Quixotic1]

.....When you keep having to come up with perjoratives to describe a neurologist's latest idiocy.

.....When you find yourself stamping (limping, lurching) around the computer screaming, "NO!!!!!!!  NO!!!!!!!!!!!"

Quix

[Momzilla]

Does this sound cynical at all?

.........You know you have MS when and only when you have 3 or more lesions 3mm or larger, detected by MR, or that jump out and tap the radiologist on the shoulder and announce their presence; have had two or more episodes of demyelination separated by time and space and video-documented by an internationally famous health care provider with their own late night infommercial; have had positive CFS findings which are so out of normal range as to stand on their own as diagnostic criteria.

All this, and ONLY when your neurologist TELLS you you have MS......  That's how you know ...you have MS!  

Doing the Diagnostic Limbo,

Zilla*

[Heather3418]

...when you see a "mouse" running across the floor.  Sometimes seeing things out of the corner of your eye, that no one else ever sees, but you!

[ShadowsSister]

when you run the A/C 12 months, 24/7 with the fan on...and you still feel hot and like a over cooked piece of pasta

[Lulu54]

....when your doctors' numbers are programmed into your telephone speed dialer.

[ShadowsSister]

when you feel smarter than the Doctor who is reading your test results
when you haven't had a drink and can't walk a straight line
when you walk into a wall and didn't even know it was there
When your body does what NO HUMAN is supposed to be able to do, and than freezes.
When hot water feels cold and cold feels hot...
when you wake up feeling like you just ran 26 miles while you thought you were sleeping
when you feel like you have 10lb weights strapped to your arms and legs
when it looks like you have a tattered Vail over your eyes

I'll add more later..

[Deb61]

You become a human stone statue (because of spasticity) sitting in the passenger's seat of your car while you are teaching your teen to drive a car.  

[biowham]

You know you have MS when you catch yourself wondering why you left your cell phone...*down there*.


You know you have MS when you get a buzz and look down to check your ankle pager, and that sets off the pager on your butt.


Sorry...I'm kind of hung up on these right now because I've got Lhermittes out the wazoo right now. I'm not sure what a "wazoo" really is, but I'm sure it's close.

Bio

[Lulu54]

Thanks for the laughs.

I hope you keep them coming.