Another Christmas? Another 12 Days of Christmas, MS Style
I love Christmas.
I love Christmas songs.
But personally, I don’t love the 12 Days of Christmas carol. I find it obnoxious. Recently however, I learned that it was actually an important and secret song.
Folklore has it, that this carol was written in the late 1700’s in England as a code to help children study their catechism as Christianity was forbidden at the time. A partridge in a pear tree represents Jesus Christ, two calling birds represent the apostles Peter and Paul, three French hens represent the Holy Trinity, etc.
Weird, as my grandmothers always taught me that the Holy Trinity was Portuguese, but what can you do?
As a devout Catholic who totally gets the reason for the season, I feel bad calling the song obnoxious when is seems like it should be something to be appreciated, even just slightly.
Kind of like how there was a brief time when I actually appreciated multiple sclerosis. And by brief I mean minutes, no, actually seconds.
This was when I received my diagnosis after I had diagnosed myself via the internet as having either early onset Alzheimer’s disease or acute and untreatable insanity. MS was actually a relief at that moment.
Now it is just absolutely obnoxious and that is on one of its very rare good days.
Since I am in the Christmas spirit all year long (but now that it IS Christmas, it is ok to be in the Christmas spirit) I thought I would combine the two.
So here friends, is a multiple sclerosis Christmas carol, obnoxiousness and all.
On the first day of Christmas MS brought to me: one ach-y bod-y
On the second day of Christmas MS brought to me: fingers all tingly
On the third day of Christmas MS brought to me: three MS hugs
On the fourth day of Christmas MS brought to me: lots of blurry vision
On the fifth day of Christmas MS brought to me: brain completely spacey…..
On the sixth day of Christmas MS brought to me: every day so sleepy
On the seventh day of Christmas MS brought to me: feeling kind of dizzy
On the eight day of Christmas MS brought to me: bladder very leaky
On the ninth day of Christmas MS brought to me: four shots so nasty
On the tenth day of Christmas MS brought to me: head feeling crappy
On the eleventh day of Christmas MS brought to me: legs acting lazy
On the twelfth day of Christmas MS brought to me: balance not so steady-
legs acting lazy, head feeling crappy, four shots so nasty, bladder very leaky, feeling kind of dizzy, every day so sleepy, brain completely spacey, lots of blurry vision, three MS hugs, fingers all tingly, and one, ach-y bod-y…..
Let’s sing it together, shall we?
NOT!
Ahhh friends, a very healthy and Merry Christmas to you all.
And for my non- Christian friends, may you have a healthy and happy season of all things good and not MS related!
PS- the girls in the Christmas hats aren’t me although I do own one and it does look pretty cute on me if I do say so myself.
The singing sisters aren’t me either….
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