While telling all of the people that I met that day that my “famous” thank you cards were already in the mail, I wrote an e-mail to all of them, just to tell them how much I appreciate them taking the time to meet me.
They answered me in a matter of hours and that, also, had the power to make me feel even happier.
As you see, I didn’t talk about my medical situation in the beginning of my story because it is not what my experience has been all about.
It’s really not.
While I am concerned and worried, this is not what I have learned, this is not what I am about and I didn’t want to simply tell you about my medical situation without understanding that this is the way I am and that this is just another lesson of life that has been given to me.
I don’t know what’s going to happen to me tomorrow or next week, just as all of us don’t really know.
I do live every day like it is a gift and not just another, simple day.
I just learned to realize that what is important in all of this are the people I meet and that I have met and that, now, are part of my life.
People that gave me so much to dream about and that allow me to be happy every day, even while having to deal with MS.
People that, without MS, I would have never have been able to meet.
The pain I feel is only physical, but it doesn’t own me and it doesn’t own who I am, just like MS doesn’t.
I am still the same person I was before “it” came into my life and I won’t change just because it is a part of it.
The visit to Johns Hopkins was just one of the amazing experiences that I have been blessed to have in this country and in of the many places that I have visited throughout my life.
I won’t forget all of them just because I am sick, just like I won’t stop believing that I have been lucky, that I have been blessed and that I have been able to learn how to make myself happy with those famous little things that most people forget to look at.
This is all about my visit to Johns Hopkins.
It was an experience that was added to the many I have been lucky enough to have.
Thank you all for being a part of this.
Love
Angela
They answered me in a matter of hours and that, also, had the power to make me feel even happier.
As you see, I didn’t talk about my medical situation in the beginning of my story because it is not what my experience has been all about.
It’s really not.
While I am concerned and worried, this is not what I have learned, this is not what I am about and I didn’t want to simply tell you about my medical situation without understanding that this is the way I am and that this is just another lesson of life that has been given to me.
I don’t know what’s going to happen to me tomorrow or next week, just as all of us don’t really know.
I do live every day like it is a gift and not just another, simple day.
I just learned to realize that what is important in all of this are the people I meet and that I have met and that, now, are part of my life.
People that gave me so much to dream about and that allow me to be happy every day, even while having to deal with MS.
People that, without MS, I would have never have been able to meet.
The pain I feel is only physical, but it doesn’t own me and it doesn’t own who I am, just like MS doesn’t.
I am still the same person I was before “it” came into my life and I won’t change just because it is a part of it.
The visit to Johns Hopkins was just one of the amazing experiences that I have been blessed to have in this country and in of the many places that I have visited throughout my life.
I won’t forget all of them just because I am sick, just like I won’t stop believing that I have been lucky, that I have been blessed and that I have been able to learn how to make myself happy with those famous little things that most people forget to look at.
This is all about my visit to Johns Hopkins.
It was an experience that was added to the many I have been lucky enough to have.
Thank you all for being a part of this.
Love
Angela
Johns Hopkins Visit - October 6, 2007
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