Baseball games and once upon a time...

Facing new challenges isn't something that comes every once in a while with auto-immune disease. You literally have to be on point and on your game every moment of every day. Learning to listen to your body, speak up for your beliefs, and finding joy in the little victories are the most important things we as spoonie a have to face. At 35, I never imagined my life having so many challenges. I see couples my age still having kids, fighting for a career they so despartely desire, or even being a "super parents". Meanwhile I'm just trying to climb a flight of stairs without my knee swelling for 3 days. (Not joking). Then I think back to my twenties. My disease didn't progress as fast when I was going to baseball games, soccer games, softball games, building the fastest race car in cleveland lol. No, God gave me a chance to enjoy my children grow up and become young adults and then changed my whole world again. So if I took charge of life with such vigor and tenacity in my twenties, what is stopping me now from doing the same thing?