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A
Pocket Full
of Nickels
Myasthenia Gravis Remission
By Beverly J. NASON
On a good morning, we awake with a
dollars
worth of invisible nickels
in our
pocket, or perhaps we find them after our
first
dose of
Mestinon.
We must decide how to spend this precious supply.
Shall we shower, dress, make the bed, have breakfast, go to a
job,
and
recklessly spend them all at once?
Perhaps, we should just use twenty-five cents,
and
dress without the shower or shave, leave the bed for later,
and
spend five to fifteen cents for breakfast.
We alone may judge from our recent experience.
Having decided, we act, and our precious deposits is made into
an
invisible
slot, filled with invisible batteries.
These batteries kick in slowly and we drain their reserve.
When it is close to gone, we force ourselves to rest.
As the day progresses, we decided to do a small chore.
The shave, shower, shampoo?
Five more nickels perhaps?
The bed?
One nickel perhaps.
Cleaning house? Going to work?
How many nickels will we have to spend today?
For many of us, we can barely afford one nickel at a time,
today.
If we have the luxury of time for a rest period or a nap,
We might awaken with a sudden new supply of nickels in our
pocket.
Probably our next dose of
Mestinon will
provide us with a
fresh
supply. For others, we may find we've chosen unwisely
and
squandered our day's wealth,
Or borrowed from them tomorrow, to do what had to be done,
or
simply what we wanted to do to improve our quality of life.
the
debt must be repaid, and time in bed will be the price.
We can gamble them all away, or spend them gratefully.
When we awake, morning after morning, with pockets full of
nickels,
Such an abundance that we no longer have to count them
We have achieved Myasthenia Gravis remission
May you all have "pocket full of nickels"
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Myasthenia
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