The Fight Continues
I've had multiple people tell me they like reading my story and liked my blogs when I was first diagnosed. It's not really a caring bridge story anymore so this will work for now. Today was an overwhelming day with the MS Walk. People traveled to walk around a baseball stadium a couple times for me. I had over 20 people there walking on my team. The best part about that is it's a small portion of the team that I have built. There's no way I can classify whether my support team is friends, family, coworkers, etc because everyone who is in this with me is simply family. I learned many years ago that family is not just by blood but the ones who go to battle for you everyday. I never have to question if I'm in this alone. I have a great wife who's basically superwoman doing so many things and now an ever growing family from all over. It's incredible to see all the love and support and still sometimes difficult to accept. I spent so many years hiding from the disease and ignoring it's symptoms sometimes have this wonder if I deserve all the support I have. I always assumed that having MS would be the most difficult challenge of my life and was afraid to face it when in reality hiding it and being alone in the suffering and limitations was the hardest thing I've ever done. As much as I try to not concentrate on the past I still try and figure out what my end game was. I was pretty sure I knew what I had and I was correct and letting it continue to develop and hide it was did I think would happen.
I've come so far since then though and in such a short time. A year ago I would have never considered walking around a stadium twice after spending an hour plus on my feet already. I'm at the gym twice a week. One of my more emotional moments of today is when the owner of MS Forward who is in a wheelchair from MS came up to me and said "I want to thank you as a Father." His son works at the gym and is the trainer for my group. He told me his son talked about me after my 2 sessions last week and how fired up he was to have me come. Apparently my unwillingness to quit and wanting to go full speed and work my ass off left a positive mark. They have to work at making me back off and remind me it's not race. All I know is quit is not an options. There's a whole group of MS patients and departments/people there to help us. In my short time of dealing with this I've been very impressed and happy to see that this group is truly an MS Community. Everyone seems to know everyone.
Finally I'm proud to say My family and myself have raised close to $1500. All of the money raised has gone to the MS Society and that money will not go to waste. The information and ways to treat this disease are improving all the time. Science is catching up and we're learning more about it. This year already the first medicine ever was approved for pediatric MS. The money will go to help bridge that gap. I want to thank Jessica Shoemake for making our shirts that were such a hit, Ian Kimmer for planning and putting together the walk along with his team so we can continue to raise awareness, Daryl and MS Forward for taking me in and pushing me, my family in Puerto Rico for getting my on a life changing diet and always being there for me, along with every other person who has been there for me. This fight is just beginning and I will do what I can to help myself and others in the same fight. Quit isn't in my vocabulary and won't happen. We will win.
I've come so far since then though and in such a short time. A year ago I would have never considered walking around a stadium twice after spending an hour plus on my feet already. I'm at the gym twice a week. One of my more emotional moments of today is when the owner of MS Forward who is in a wheelchair from MS came up to me and said "I want to thank you as a Father." His son works at the gym and is the trainer for my group. He told me his son talked about me after my 2 sessions last week and how fired up he was to have me come. Apparently my unwillingness to quit and wanting to go full speed and work my ass off left a positive mark. They have to work at making me back off and remind me it's not race. All I know is quit is not an options. There's a whole group of MS patients and departments/people there to help us. In my short time of dealing with this I've been very impressed and happy to see that this group is truly an MS Community. Everyone seems to know everyone.
Finally I'm proud to say My family and myself have raised close to $1500. All of the money raised has gone to the MS Society and that money will not go to waste. The information and ways to treat this disease are improving all the time. Science is catching up and we're learning more about it. This year already the first medicine ever was approved for pediatric MS. The money will go to help bridge that gap. I want to thank Jessica Shoemake for making our shirts that were such a hit, Ian Kimmer for planning and putting together the walk along with his team so we can continue to raise awareness, Daryl and MS Forward for taking me in and pushing me, my family in Puerto Rico for getting my on a life changing diet and always being there for me, along with every other person who has been there for me. This fight is just beginning and I will do what I can to help myself and others in the same fight. Quit isn't in my vocabulary and won't happen. We will win.
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