Hospital visit

Well yesterday was my latest appointment with my Neuro Dr Hawkins,
i attend every 3 months to get my blood checks done and keep him upto date with how things have been for myself . So nothing really any different about a hospital visit you would think to yourself, but this time there was in my eyes something that i never noticed before .

As i arrived for my appointment i did the same old routine parked the car walked in and went and got myself a coffee and made my way to reception and made myself known, as usual i was early so i found a seat and sat down. There was a lot of people there waiting and i could see that Dr Hawkins had a very packed day ahead for himself and his other MS doctors. So as i relaxing into my seat i started to notice something different about the people sitting around me something for the first i,d never noticed before and believe me I've experienced long waits before but this was different.

I was staring around me and happened to see what i can only decide as the three stages of MS patients . This i had never noticed before and if i have this was the only time it had registered with me. I was near the reception area were every one had to confirm there appointment so i could see everyone come and go, so i couldn't help myself not being nosy but starting to think to oneself how different we all were. There were ones like myself on the day who were ok to walk in with not needing a stick or a helping shoulder to lean on ( i was ok on the day happily enough thank God ) then came ones who needed that helping hand whether it was by a helper or by the aid of some sort of support. There were ones in wheelchairs who made there way there some on there own or with a family member or friend.

And this is were i started to think deeply and drift a bit in thought, what i was thinking were that there was a lot of different people on so many different stages of there MS in sort, i started to feel a sadness and felt myself over come with emotion . As i was feeling this i saw that most of these people were sharing a laugh or smiling at times and this is were it came to mind that i shouldn't be feeling down or saddened by this because these people and i shared two things in common the first being we all shared the most important and that was life itself the most precious thing we all should be thankful for, and the second being we all suffer from MS. So in a way it brought us all together as one so from now on i will try and not feel down even on my bad days when i cant get about and on the good days when i can. Because i will always think back to that hospital appointment when i first started to see happy people brought together with an illness called MS.