Hi Kes
mm is a complete and random illness. Some people live for umpteen years and others (like my husband) don't get that long.
Stephen and I decided just after he was diagnosed that if we did not continue our lives "normally" whatever that is he might just as well die there and then
We made no long term plans ie well in 8 years time you will get your state pension and we will ……. but we did plan a little way ahead ie shall we go to France next month shall we look at booking up?.
Yes it was bloody hard sometimes but we lived every day as normally as we could right up until a few days before he died He was 57 but we both decided that if we didn't "live" neither of us would have any life and we both wanted to get the best and most we could out of whatever we had left.
Please Please try to live your life as you would. I always said to Stephen "you are diagnosed to go first but Hey what's to say I don't get run over by a bus tomorrow" so we tied mm up into a little box wrapped it in string and put it to the back of our minds until we had to get it out and unwrap it
mm attacks your body please don't let it attack your whole life Plan your plans. Dream your dreams and live your life to the full. After all there may be a no 3 bus with yours or my name on it just around the corner:-)
Good luck and good health from Gillx
