Fun!

For some reason all day today the topic of FUN has been on my mind. I thought I need to blog about this. All I ever talk about is updates on doctor appointments, how I'm feeling etc. I think it's important that everyone knows I'm still a real person with real needs, real wants, real feelings, just like every other person. And, I still have fun.

Keep in mind MG affects all voluntary muscles including facial muscles... I love to smile and laugh but doing so for a long time wears out my diaphragm and my face. Even without smiling or laughing... I remember at a party not too long ago I was struggling with keeping my face from going into full frown mode. It just falls limp... limp face doesn't mean unhappy or anything other than MG. Remember that. Usually, unless you've said or done something really mean/hurtful, I'm pretty content regardless of what my face shows.

Fortunately, for me, having fun has never been a problem. I have always been able to come up with things to do to keep me from being bored. Very glad that was an ability I was given since its been very useful now.

Fun used to be focused on going on vacations, dates/nights out, entertaining/having people over etc. Well, fun now, it's a lot more than that. Fun is sitting with a friend chatting about anything and everything and nothing at all. Fun is watching the show Impractical Jokers (if you haven't seen it and you don't get offended easily- watch it- hilarious!) Fun is feeling well enough to put on makeup and a dress even if I'm just going to a store. Fun is being in 3rd place as the only female in an all male football pool. Fun is that one song coming on the radio and busting out into a dance party even if only tapping your foot and shaking your shoulders because the rest of you isn't working. Fun is "lunch and learns" and library events because I'm a nerd. Fun is reading the newspaper while drinking coffee. Fun is getting something in the mail- it's like Christmas every day! Fun is finding out there is a giveaway. Fun is seeing family you haven't seen in a while even if only for a moment. Fun is getting an adrenalin rush and doing laps around the living room. Fun is realizing you fit in your mom's clothes and now have double the choice in things to wear. Fun is playing with dogs. Fun is writing something very inappropriate on a list of things Dad is going to get from the bakery knowing he will hand that list to the employee rather than read it off and the employee will wonder why the heck such an inappropriate thing is written on his order (guilty!). Fun is creating our own stories for people we pass in the car. Fun is getting messages, emails and texts from people showing they care, that they are thinking of you, or just something to make you laugh. Fun is.... whatever you make it.

If I can have fun with the majority of my time spent laying in a bed or at doctors offices, you certainly can too. Fun surrounds you. Grab it. All it takes is having an open mind and looking at everything as an opportunity awaiting, in a positive light. Life is fun! Life is what YOU make it! Make it fun, make it good, make it worth it!

ps. a few hours left at your chance to win a $50 gift card! If I am one of the top 3 I will randomly draw one of you who donated to receive the gift card! Please consider making a contribution if you haven't already to the MG Walk Fundraiser... "For a world without Myasthenia Gravis"! Thank you!