Hi everyone hope you are as well as you can be.
It’s over two years since I posted on this forum and I’m sorry to report that since my 80th birthday I have given up and become very lazy. Have just spent a month in a Care Home for respite, a costly mistake because instead of stimulating me it has had the opposite effect!!
I’m now waiting for the carers to dress me. put me in my wheelchair and yes yipee I’ll be collected and returned to the peace and quiet of my bedroom.
I wish you all the very best, I think this will probably be my last post - I’m too weary for any more adventures,
Take care
Love Essie
Hi essie,
Oh I was so sorry to read your post, it made me sad to think because you’re 80 you’ve given up, please don’t, as I dare say at your age you’ve got some good advice to dole out.
So come Essie, at least tell me how your day has been, where you are and what’s on offer, maybe we could get a chat group going, us oldies and all that, I’m 65, do I qualify ?
Take care,
Jean x
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Hello Essie, please stay strong. I hope this won’t be your last post and that you get some comfort, support and friendship from accessing this site (as I do).
It’s hard having to go into respite these days, but once you get back home you might feel differently (I hope so). I use a wheelchair too and know how difficult life can be, but I think of it as a chariot to get me around (I’m old too - but I only ever admit to being 26 and I’ve been that age for a very very long time.
I hope you post again and I want you to know that people on here do care.
Mary x
Hello Essie,
I was diagnosed last year, so I’m probably earlier on in MS than you are and I didn’t see your earlier posts. But I’m impressed that you are posting here in your 80s - it’s inspiring to someone at my early stage.
It sounds like what you can do has become quite limited. Can you find enjoyable things, despite all the constraints? Even if it is not exactly adventures?
Whatever you decide, it should be your choice, of course. Wishing you all the very best.
Leonora.
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