Lean On Me

 

I am a leaner.

Can’t help it.

And frankly, I blame multiple sclerosis.

I lean.  On everything.  Have since about 2005.

 

 

I feel as though I am going backward on the evolutionary scale because of my prominent “poop stoop” leaning posture.

 

 

 

I point my shaky finger at MS for stealing my balance like a thief at an ATM.

MS swiped my core strength like a wiper blade clears the windshield of rain.

So I lean.

On my canes.  On a rollator.

Throughout the house I lean.

 

 

 

Against a wall.  ( I would make a perfect target for a firing squad.)

 

 

 

 

 

In a doorway.

(Careful to watch my fingers.)

 

 

 

 

Along a bannister or railing.

 

 

 

 

I lean on the kitchen cabinets.

(Seemingly ALWAYS in the way blocking the drawer my wife needs to get in to.)

 

 

 

 

And I lean on the back of chairs.

(My hand on the chair–or the shoulders of the person sitting there.)

 

 

 

 

I am even forced to lean while taking a shower…pressing my butt cheeks against the shower wall to maintain my balance.

 

 

 

No thanks to MS, I am a leaner.

Good or bad, it is what one must do to keep some semblance of normalcy in life with multiple sclerosis.

Are you like me with a fondness for leaning?  (I can’t be the only one!)

Reach out.  Hold on.  And keep moving!