I have been thinking about nerves and their value to our everyday lives that we don’t often think about.
Nerves come in bundles, and not like a baby either. They send and receive messages between the body and the brain making up our nervous systems. Nerve fibers are covered in tissue called the myelin sheath, which speeds up the transmission of nerve impulses. With MS, the myelin sheath has been damaged or destroyed so the respective body parts do not work properly and oftentimes we experience pain, tingling, numbness, weakness, loss of muscle strength, or paralysis.
Importantly, nerves are responsible for many functions, and this is where MSers experience their issues. Sometimes it is with functions like breathing, sweating, and digesting food. Nerves are the work horses for feeling sensations and for moving your muscles.
My MS symptoms cross all of these areas and unpredictably. When they couple up, the symptoms can be sudden and disabling. That can get on one’s nerve. However, once the symptom has made it clear, I know that I must accomodate it and outlast its lack of connectivity. Working through these symptoms has taught me to have a lot of endurance and patience with my own abilities and those of others.
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