Invincible Summer

The past few days my diagnosis has been my mind a lot. I have MS. It's the truth, but it doesn't define me.
I will accept the diagnosis, I will even accept that for right now there are things I am unable to do. I will recognize this is going to change things in my life. But I will not let it change who I am.

I blogged a long time ago about my favorite quotes. I am finding myself thinking a lot about a few of them.
Here' what I wrote last April in my blog titled quotes:

This quote was from a plaque I received many many years ago and this quote still hangs in our home.  I love the idea of equating our family to a circle made of strength and love.  The births and unions, but also I need to hold on to the part about every crisis faced together making the circle stronger. 
"Our family is a circle of strength and love, with every birth and every union, the circle will grow, every joy shared adds more love, every crisis faced together, makes the circle stronger."

The family quote leads into my second favorite quote:  "That which doesn't break us makes us stronger" I rely on that one often. 

There was a book I read when I was a young adult titled Invincible Summer.  It was the story of a young man battling cancer.  It was the first book I read that dealt with death.  It moved me and to this day I have such a vivid recollection of this book.
  I use this quote to remind me that whenever I think I am not able to have the strength within to do something that within me there is that invincible summer.
 "In the depths of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer." - Albert Camus

I am going to draw my strength and courage from my circle of strength and love as well as the invincible summer within me for neurologist appointment is this afternoon.
BRING IT ON