Category Archives: MS Gets on Your Nerves

A Few More Inches

Posted on July 29, 2014 by Mrs. Spit

I had a little plan for how this week was going to go. Hang on. Let’s start at the beginning. I have to write code for a workflow engine this week and I have the whole week to do it. … Continue reading →

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Opinions

Posted on July 18, 2014 by Mrs. Spit

Sometimes the hardest part of having a chronic disease is being gracious to the people who are patently watching out for you and your health when you are clearly not doing it yourself. Damn MS. I over did it the … Continue reading →

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Metallic Taste (Part 1)

Posted on June 24, 2014 by Mrs. Spit

My memory is visceral, based upon smell and taste and sound. The smell of my mother’s perfume still leaves me a bit off kilter, if not slightly uneasy. Wood smoke takes me hiking in high school. Hotel California on the … Continue reading →

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Inspirational

Posted on May 25, 2014 by Mrs. Spit

Saturday was a “real” MS day. I stayed up too late on Friday. I had a skype call with niece the eldest, I was working on something and chatting to a friend in Australia and I looked at my clock … Continue reading →

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MoJo

Posted on May 22, 2014 by Mrs. Spit

I had a bit of an epiphany last Friday. Here’s a bit of a spoiler for you – you already know what I’m going to say. I’m choosing to embrace that I showed up for the party at all, rather … Continue reading →

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Who Only Stand and Wait

Posted on April 30, 2014 by Mrs. Spit

Grade 11, I think, we had to memorize Sonnet 19 –  When I Consider How My Light is Spent which is Milton’s poem about going blind. I was 17 and impatient when I asked what the purpose of memorizing poetry was. … Continue reading →

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Hallelujah

Posted on April 29, 2014 by Mrs. Spit

It’s a cold and broken Hallelujah.  Hallelujah is by definition a word of praise and rejoicing. You shout it when you are happy, when you have something to celebrate. I have been looking, since diagnosis, for the moment when I … Continue reading →

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Not Ok

Posted on April 24, 2014 by Mrs. Spit

I fake it well. I really do. Through a tough day with a staff member who had to be disciplined even though I like him,  through a hard workshop, through telling my family, I fake it well. I do what … Continue reading →

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Watch Maker’s Entropy

Posted on April 22, 2014 by Mrs. Spit

Sitting in my third year philosophy class, I had no idea that the questions could be so real at 35. Is God a watchmaker then? Is he the a priori creator of the universe, the omni, omni who called the … Continue reading →

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A Game of Inches

Posted on April 17, 2014 by Mrs. Spit

There’s this moment when Travis looks at me and says “you aren’t allowed to die before me” and my heart contracts. I was always going to die before Travis, I am 16 years older than he is. Still, this moment. … Continue reading →

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