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It alienates you, simply put.

When you’re having a bout of exhaustion for weeks or months or eternity and a friend asks you how you’ve been doing or what you’ve been up to, how do you answer them? “Oh, I’ve been sleeping constantly” or the old standby “Watching the inside of my eyelids”

You’ve been a lump and your friends have been out doing things, living their lives.

Sucks.

As a result you withdraw from friends and family.

I like green jello. Muppets from Space. Pepe: I have some loose Jell-o okay? Cracks me up.

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I understand that being newly diagnosed there is a grief process each and every person goes through. Some go quickly to the end which is acceptance. Others kick and scream and, well, scream some more.

This is normal. Expected even.

But please, for the love of everything holy, don’t get hung up on comparisons. If someone says they’re exhausted don’t tell them they don’t know exhaustion until they’ve been smacked with MS fatigue. They are exhausted. They aren’t as whacked by it as you are. That is a given. But don’t belittle what these people in your life feel.

It’s a matter of degrees. Open your heart and your mind, pull yourself out of your pity hole and realize that these people are bloody entitled to use words like fatigue and pain.

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