Team Savta
I have to make this as brief as possible, as I can only sit for a short time before my legs get numb. Last year my daughter Becky (aks Beckyfeld) and grandson Aaron participated in the MS walk to raise money to find a cure for MS. As many of you know I have had MS for many years. Becky and Aaron never knew a time when I didn't have MS. Today I am most frustrated by the aspect of the uncertainty it puts on every aspect of my life. I have worked all year to try to keep up my strength to walk with Aaron this year in the MS Walk in Maryland. Every time I had an attack, I'd get out as soon as I could to get my endurance up from not so much to aiming for 5 miles. I even participated in a 5K walk for a local charity last fall as "training" for this one.
Well, since then I've had 2 attacks, and though I had started training again after the first, I came was hit by this current one just last Thursday. There was no getting away from it. I couldn't go to Maryland.
But I can sit here in the Walk MS T-shirt Becky gave me from the 1995 walk, and on Sunday wear last year's T-shirt, and say how proud I am of Team Savta, who will participate without me. Aaron said to me last year in response to my concern that I might not be able to walk 5 miles, "It's not about the walking, Savta, it's about the sponsors".
I just had to post a good morning message. It's now 7:25 and I got out of bed at 6:45 to see *snow*. Not too much to make it hard going, but just enough mixed in with a light rain to be pretty and to fall outside my window. Yesterday I went for the first long walk in over a month, and picked up some beautiful fall leaves and pressed them between two sheets of waxed paper. I had to do this before going to bed last night, as they were drying out quickly. It is just a concrete series of happenings to remind me to truly enjoy each of the wonders of nature that Hashem has blessed us with. The fact that I was able to walk yesterday, to see the leaves, to bend down and pick them up, to hold them all the way home, to put them down, to rest and then daven and then make dinner. To have a wonderful family and friends to share my leaves with in notes, and to be able to do the complex physical, mental, and emotional tasks involved in these simple acts - from one who has had times when I couldn't do these things- makes me truly grateful to Hashem for the abilities I have and also, especially, for the family and friends with whom I can share my happiness. I hope you all have a wonderful day.
Well, since then I've had 2 attacks, and though I had started training again after the first, I came was hit by this current one just last Thursday. There was no getting away from it. I couldn't go to Maryland.
But I can sit here in the Walk MS T-shirt Becky gave me from the 1995 walk, and on Sunday wear last year's T-shirt, and say how proud I am of Team Savta, who will participate without me. Aaron said to me last year in response to my concern that I might not be able to walk 5 miles, "It's not about the walking, Savta, it's about the sponsors".
I just had to post a good morning message. It's now 7:25 and I got out of bed at 6:45 to see *snow*. Not too much to make it hard going, but just enough mixed in with a light rain to be pretty and to fall outside my window. Yesterday I went for the first long walk in over a month, and picked up some beautiful fall leaves and pressed them between two sheets of waxed paper. I had to do this before going to bed last night, as they were drying out quickly. It is just a concrete series of happenings to remind me to truly enjoy each of the wonders of nature that Hashem has blessed us with. The fact that I was able to walk yesterday, to see the leaves, to bend down and pick them up, to hold them all the way home, to put them down, to rest and then daven and then make dinner. To have a wonderful family and friends to share my leaves with in notes, and to be able to do the complex physical, mental, and emotional tasks involved in these simple acts - from one who has had times when I couldn't do these things- makes me truly grateful to Hashem for the abilities I have and also, especially, for the family and friends with whom I can share my happiness. I hope you all have a wonderful day.