...are now things that I can NO longer do.....

I look forward to the things I CAN do - count my blessings as my mama always told me (and I tell my kids). There are so many others that are worse off, who can't do the things that I can. I can talk, read, laugh, love, sit, smell the flowers and the rain, listen to beautiful music and the sounds of nature ... I know MS is a huge cross to bear, but those of us who do have to carry the burden are strong and special. Look forward to the life that you have and love every minute of it.

I still look forward to most of the things I wanted to do before I was dx'd. I still look forward to things you mention and more. At one point I had given up and figured there was no way I could do those things. Now I decided.. no way will I give up, I only have one life and I'm going to make it everything I want.

Yes, it's true, it's a challenge and some things I have bypassed and found other things that I find fulfilling. Overall if it's something you want to do, it might be harder to do b/c of MS, but there is almost always a way.

Good luck and don't stop looking forward to your life, you never know what it will bring.

I used to look forward to having children. But since I'm 45 and I'd have to stop my meds, I guess that's out of the picture. Now I'm looking forward to a short trip to AZ with my mom, and visiting with friends over the summer.

I look forward to feeling better and coming to terms with my MS. I look forward to the daily anxiety going away and I look forward to having babies. Oh and Im looking forward to going to Spain with my mom in November!

i am 68, dx. 2 years ago, have had it for about 20 years they think. i had been telling them for 20 years i thought i had it, but why should they pay attention to me.

i miss so much the things i cannot do. the fatigue is too great. the pain is getting to be intolerable.

i think it is wonderful to say that people sill feel lucky and look forward to the things they can do. that simply does not work for me. i want my own life back, i want my non-fatigueness back. i take a lot of stuff to help the fatigue, but none is helping now.

so, i just do not know. i have no idea what we look forward to,

good luck,
lorrie

I am just looking forward to living my life as I always have. As I was also dx late in life (april 2010, but supposedly have had ms for aprox 25 years, am now 49) I'm only planning on being a bit more careful about my symptoms. I take meds for fatigue and vitamins for everything else.

I look forward to getting out of this hospital in a couple of days! Erin

I love the reply about looking forward to what you still can do. So often, on bad days, I focus on what I can no longer do. If I had to pick one thing I am looking forward to today? hmmmmmm.... Maybe some upcoming trips by air. I get a wheelchair at the airport to make it work. Walking and making connections is no longer an option. So, traveling independently and getting used to asking for assistance :-)

FAITH NOT FEAR darling... After 24 years of dealing with this MonSter, I don't let it tell me what I CANNOT DO!! I push forward, doing all that I want to do (pay the price when I do to much, mind you), but I REFUSE to allow this MonSter to dictate my life!!

Honestly, MS has allowed me to really SLOW DOWN AND SMELL THE ROSES!! It's a mixed blessing, but I have FAITH that I continue to plug along!!!

Attitude is everything!! Focus on what you CAN DO, not on the things that you can't... What the heck, try those things anyway as you may surprise yourself!! xoxoxo Cj (Cindyjo)

At the moment I am looking forward to my period starting lol. I decided I dont want another kid at the moment, used protection and breaks...I really, really want my period to start.
I also look forward to bed time cause I am tired.

Summoning, lol!!! Hoping for you!

Beemer-I look forward to having friends over instead and reconnecting with them. With the economy-no one can go shopping anymore and vacations are being scaled way down-get out a board game and have a few friends over!

Tonight, I am looking forward to finishing my work night, driving home and climbing into bed with my husband...
I am looking forward to getting back into a routine now that my husband found a job!!!!
I am looking forward to his paychecks! (to put togther with mine )
I am looking forward to a first time trip to Salem Mass during Halloween weekend with our friends and all our kids!
I am looking forward to being exhausted afterwards!

I am with Summoning.. Hoping to see my period soon. Havent been feeling myself even with tubes tied!!!

I look forward to cooler weather, college and N.F.L. football, and winter. Yes winter!!!!!!!!!!!! I take 2/3 blizzards a week compared to this stupid hot weather nonsense. I'am NOT a young "spring chicken" to like when I was in the USAF stationed at Sheppard A.F.B, Texas experiencing 55 days in a row of 100 degrees or hotter. And 20 of these days were 110 or hotter. Everyone that has M.S. or this Sarcoidosis I was diagnois of having should welcome with open arms the cooler/colder weather. Like I stated on someone's topic they started, "hotter weather increases inflamation, more inflamation the more inflammatary pain. So because I hate, can't stand this inflammatary pain, I wish for cooler weather.
gary