Aaaaaanny way! I guess that I should separate Annie's stories from mine. We made a strange pairing I guess...a mental combination of progressive MS and deafness!

Annie tamed down some of my ideas. I "cut the crap"..out of some of her stories..to say the least!! However after watching and living on an almost daily basis of what she was forced to live with,..I can see where she got her "up-yours" attitude that is evident in some of the stories that we wrote together. I did not face as she did in the same room for five years in a row.

The worst thing that she had to live with was staring at the same four walls of the same room for five long years.,..and seeing the same faces..day..after day...after day...(this is getting trite),,,week after week and then..long year after year!!

I cannot imagine what it was like for Annie to have been physically forced to give up walking in the sunlight with her little boy or husband or give up shopping at the local malls,..or give up her job..she was an LPN,..like myself,..or going to church or going to parties,..or stopping at the local pub and having a beer with her husband!!

I cannnot understand what life was like for a thirty eight year old woman, who in my book, has bearly lived,....when her illness forced her finally down and she could not walk anymore,..to give up an active life and have to spent the rest of her existence in bed!!

And now,..five years later,....at age forty-four years,....she is going to die and her friends and family must watch her mind go.

(Sorry,..I cannot write any more today!)