Why Do I Park Here?
www.whydoiparkhere.com
Our MS Story
In April of 2008, our daughter Christy was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis.
Christy was 24 years old, and 2 months into a brand new marriage.
Over night, our lives were filled with uncertainty, despair, fear, and sadness.
The best wisdom given to us was that with MS, knowledge was power. With that information, and feeling so totally powerless, we began to collect knowledge.
The Internet, books, and the MS Society were great resources for all of us.
What we learned very quickly was that the only thing that you could be sure about MS was that you could not be sure of anything.
Was Christy going to go blind? Was she going to be in a wheelchair? Was she going to ever be able to have babies or raise children if she had them? Was she going to get to live a normal life at all? Was my daughter going to die?
The questions were endless and the days seemed to warp one right into another with only sleepless tearful nights separating them.
As we faced the questions and the symptoms of the disease, the most amazing thing happened. As crazy as it may seem, it was Christy who got all of us through to the next day. Her smile…her drive…her determination.
She set out on a path that did not necessarily surprise me, but certainly re-defined for me the adult woman that she had already become.
She raised money for the MS Society, she joined clubs, and groups, and smiled and giggled, and made fun of herself. She coined the term “Messy” for “M-S’y” to describe when she was not doing well, and continued to bring sunshine into every room she entered.
It was not without fear, or sadness, or doubt, or trouble. She also dealt with all of those issues. She just walks through this with so much life and HUMOR! I tell her all the time that I wanna be just like her when I grow up!!!
It is with every inch of my heart that I dedicate this website to my amazing daughter Christy, and all of those who suffer every day with MS or any other illness.
We have been blessed to have met and count among our friends others with MS. So many of them take the path that Christy has taken. They struggle, they laugh, and they live. It’s what they’ve got.
It is also the dream of my heart that this website will somewhere, somehow raise awareness of the fact that not all illness is “visible”. You never know whom you are eating dinner next to, standing in line next to, or for that matter…parked next to.
Whydoiparkhere.com is about education. It is my desire that through this endeavor, others will come to be more understanding and courteous to people all over. Even if the don’t totally understand “Why did they park THERE!”
Christy was 24 years old, and 2 months into a brand new marriage.
Over night, our lives were filled with uncertainty, despair, fear, and sadness.
The best wisdom given to us was that with MS, knowledge was power. With that information, and feeling so totally powerless, we began to collect knowledge.
The Internet, books, and the MS Society were great resources for all of us.
What we learned very quickly was that the only thing that you could be sure about MS was that you could not be sure of anything.
Was Christy going to go blind? Was she going to be in a wheelchair? Was she going to ever be able to have babies or raise children if she had them? Was she going to get to live a normal life at all? Was my daughter going to die?
The questions were endless and the days seemed to warp one right into another with only sleepless tearful nights separating them.
As we faced the questions and the symptoms of the disease, the most amazing thing happened. As crazy as it may seem, it was Christy who got all of us through to the next day. Her smile…her drive…her determination.
She set out on a path that did not necessarily surprise me, but certainly re-defined for me the adult woman that she had already become.
She raised money for the MS Society, she joined clubs, and groups, and smiled and giggled, and made fun of herself. She coined the term “Messy” for “M-S’y” to describe when she was not doing well, and continued to bring sunshine into every room she entered.
It was not without fear, or sadness, or doubt, or trouble. She also dealt with all of those issues. She just walks through this with so much life and HUMOR! I tell her all the time that I wanna be just like her when I grow up!!!
It is with every inch of my heart that I dedicate this website to my amazing daughter Christy, and all of those who suffer every day with MS or any other illness.
We have been blessed to have met and count among our friends others with MS. So many of them take the path that Christy has taken. They struggle, they laugh, and they live. It’s what they’ve got.
It is also the dream of my heart that this website will somewhere, somehow raise awareness of the fact that not all illness is “visible”. You never know whom you are eating dinner next to, standing in line next to, or for that matter…parked next to.
Whydoiparkhere.com is about education. It is my desire that through this endeavor, others will come to be more understanding and courteous to people all over. Even if the don’t totally understand “Why did they park THERE!”
The "Christy Giggle"!
