Morrie was always a very intuitive man, so when one day he couldn’t dance anymore he knew something was wrong. Morrie loved to dance, he loved to move his body however it desired to any and every type of music you could think of. He danced alone and he danced how he saw fit, to a rhythm all his own. He twisted and turned in a way that made strangers think of him as a lunatic. When he had to stop dancing he knew something wasn’t right. Morrie developed asthma, something he never had as a child, in his sixties. He had trouble walking, stumbled and fell a few times, he got hit with a gust of wind and had to be taken to the emergency room once. By this time Morrie was older, in his seventies, so these incidents were not incredibly alarming to most people. But Morrie knew, just like he knew about so many other things some people just couldn’t, that it was not just old age bringing him down.
He knew something serious was wrong, so he began to see doctors. The doctors did a lot to try and explain his weariness, we he was so weak and had trouble sleeping. They did test after test after test. Some times they would test his urine, or his blood, and they even tried a colonoscopy. All of the tests he went through were inconclusive, doctors didn’t know what was happening to Morrie.
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A quitter was certainly not one of those things. He decided not to let his disease take over his life and to continue living the way he always has. A lot of things changed for Morrie, he could no longer drive, he couldn’t walk without a cane, and he could no longer dress and undress himself. But there were some things Morrie refused to let his disease take away from him. That was his family, that was his friends, all the love he could give to them and all the love he would receive back. He continued with his normal schedule as much as he could. He taught his final college course, he didn’t have to of course, but he didn’t dare think of