I learned something about MS from Mitt and Ann Romney via the Ladies with Multiple Sclerosis for Newt Gingrich Facebook page.
Mitt Romney revealed to Chris Wallace on Fox:
[After Mrs. Romney's MS diagnosis] "She said 'I can’t cook any more' ... And I said, look, I don’t care what the meals are like. You know, I like cold cereal and peanut butter sandwiches. We could do fine with that as long as we have each other."
None of my neurologists told me my cooking abilities would decline when I got MS. I guess that's the thorough treatment you get when you're a billionaire.
I think it's age related. You realize one day you've been making dinner nearly every day for twenty years and you just decide to stop.
Of course, getting a new stove has doomed your cooking abilities. I notice that every time someone gets a new stove or kitchen, she immediately stops cooking.
Posted by: Becs | January 22, 2012 at 07:58 AM
This assumes she ever cooked before her diagnosis.
Posted by: Marcia | January 22, 2012 at 09:53 AM
Becs - I've been cooking like a madwoman. You really do have to learn the new stove.
Marcia - a Mormon woman not cooking?
All - my doctor warned against taking hot showers; evidently I looked more like a showerer than a cooker.
Posted by: TheQueen | January 22, 2012 at 03:35 PM
Picking out crockery and cookware for the kitchen help doesn't count as cooking.
Posted by: Marcia | January 22, 2012 at 08:58 PM
Sorry, but I think a nice guy would have offered to cook or to get a cook. Only a shitty kind of man tells his wife that she can just make him sandwiches when she relays that she can't cook anymore.
Posted by: Amy in StL | January 23, 2012 at 03:27 PM
That facebook page is a stitch, in a horrible way.
Posted by: Hattie | January 23, 2012 at 04:11 PM
Marcia - It seems today he protested that he does his own laundry.
Amy in StL - Well, that is true. Cooking is love, and he said, "I don't need your love."
Hattie - I know. So so sick.
Posted by: TheQueen | January 24, 2012 at 12:18 AM