I am worn out of feeling like this. I am worn out with the pain and I am worn out of my partner acting as if everything is the same as it was before. I am worn out with Christmas and I am worn out with the rest of the month before it has already started. I cannot be bothered to answer my telephone and I am already working out excuses why I do not answre my telephone. In fact I am worn out. I cannot be bothered with christmas presents and I cannot be bothered with even thinking about christmas at all.
It’s natural for your partner to keep going as normal, my wife keeps things relatively normal for everything, but she changes to accomodate me when needed.
We have 4 adult kids and 6 young grandkids, it would be unfair to cancell christmas because of my MS.
I will not be cancelling Christmas. I am just having a winge about how I really feel to people who probably feel the same as me. Everything is such an effort but that is just me. I will make the effort and I will conceal my real feelings to my nearest and dearest.
Hi I understand where you’re coming from, I just dom’t want to do christmas…we don’t have children and it’s just the same old thing every year, with my mum and dad over for dinner. I love them but I jsut can’t be bothered anymore, I’ve just caught my second reaklly bad cold inas many months and they were always bad before I got ms , now they just make all symptoms worse and I’m having bad symptoms at the moment and am so dizzy and tired I just want to go to sleep and never wake up sometimes. I’ve done no christmas shopping, every time I go out in crowded places I just seem to end up catching every bug under the sun. Maybe we’re just depressed Anon, I’m looking forward more to the light nights and a bit of natural warmth from the sun instaed of stuffy old central heating…don’t worry about a whinge, I get it.
Anon I totally get this too but I’m trying my best because of the kids. It certainley hasn’t felt like Christmas to me for many years as I can no longer go out to the shops to buy gifts my legs just won’t allow it and I’ll be beggered if I take my scooter to do it. People are oblivious to you on those things, you’d need a flashing siren on your head if you even attempted it at this time of year Thank goodness for the internet and sometimes it’s cheaper too I think the hardest thing with the majority of us with MS is that people can’t see our dissabilities therefore they just presume we can carry on as before. Have you tried shoving the MS phamplets under their noses? Might work Take care xx
Poll Apart from the fact that the shops are crammed with shoppers most don’t cater for us scooter users - inconsiderate or what? Think they should open shopping centres for 2hrs per week just for scooters and wheelies Apart from that I really do hate shopping!! I know most people laugh when a woman says that WHAT all women like shopping - not me. Sue xx
Hi Sue, me too I HATE any type of shopping,food or clothes, thank god for the internet, free delivery too for quite a few.you cant go wrong,shop what time of day you want.24/7. no having to fight the crowds,i wouldnt shop any other way now.
I’m so pleased to read this thread. I thought it was just me. I am soooo fed up already with hearing about Christmas, and I haven’t even thought about Christmas shopping or anything else to do with it. Like several more of you I just can’t be bothered with any of it, and I could cheerfully just stay in bed and sleep for ever. I don’t know why we don’t hibernate for the winter like lots of other species. I could cheerfully go to sleep at the end of September and not wake up until beginning of March.
I know I’m a miserable old bah humbug, but I don’t care.
Thank goodness for the internet and sometimes it’s cheaper too 
I think the hardest thing with the majority of us with MS is that people can’t see our dissabilities therefore they just presume we can carry on as before. Have you tried shoving the MS phamplets under their noses? Might work Take care xx