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Good morning, Barb (@bjk3)
Thanks so much for your thoughts on my post! I was hesitant to respond as I did because I knew I was twisting the topic's original intent, but then I thought, Oh, heck, my response is honestly what popped to mind as I read the title, "Increasingly Difficult to Accept Peripheral Neuropathy"––not the difficulty I might be having with my wobbly balance and it's refusal to go away, but instead with the awful––and infuriating!––way PN has shrunk my life. I wrote my post the night my partner was in the hospital and found myself knocked for a loop by how hollow my life felt. I believe I added something in my post (I hope I did!) about fully knowing how pathetically unfair it was for me to be moaning about the absence of a partner who was only going be "not there" for a night or two, when so many of us––"all" of us, given enough time––have endure the absence of loved ones permanently. What I had hoped, however, in finishing my post was that I'd gone on long enough to pass beyond the "Oh, woe is me!" to the wake-up call I heard that night: How importance it was that I keep my life "peopled," and seeing the frightening degree to which––since the onset of my PN––I'd allowed my life to become "un-peopled." That wake-up call, as I think back on last Wednesday night, was the true value of the experience: To never forget how I felt and to let it be a reminder to do a little something every day to keep my life "peopled"––that if I don't do that little something every day, PN will win. I can't let that happen.
You, too, Barb: Have a great, great weekend!
Cheers!
Ray (@ray666)