I remember 18+ years ago being at that neurologist office when my entire left side of my body wasn’t functioning. I couldn’t really walk, I had muscle atrophy, numbness, weakness and gait difficulty. The doctor asked if anyone else in my family had MS. He knew before the MRI was even done. I sat crying in a chair as my mom leaned in front of me and said “everything was going to be ok”. We got in the car to…
I did something yesterday I haven’t done in at least 15 years. I went down to Long Beach and went down the boardwalk. I met a friend who lives right on the ocean front in one of the many beautiful buildings down in Long Beach. She met me on her scooter. Took me to park my car. Put together my scooter and away we went. We went down to from her building to the west ends end of the boardwalk….
I woke up today in a bad mood. My body is run down, I’m tired, I was sad just not happy. I decided not to overdo my workout today which for me is actually a big thing. I only did Zumba for 30 minutes. Now I just want you to have a visual of what happens when I do Zumba I try to stand up for 3 songs. Mind you my feet can’t move because I have no balance and…
This will be one of those rant posts. I started my day or early early morning waking up from a dream. One of those dreams where the other person that was in the dream was just mean, hurtful and painful. I woke up and literally looked up and said really. What am I supposed to learn from that one. Well it too a while but I did shake off the dream and got up, worked out. So far normal routine….
MS fatigue one of the most difficult symptoms to explain and deal with. 80% of all MS patients deal with this at some point or another. Fatigue is way past a feeling of tired is to the point of absolute exhaustion. It’s the feeling that each limb is 100lbs heavier than it is. Just walking the few steps to a bathroom is daunting and overwhelming. It never fails you’ll be talking to a friend and you’ll say I’m tired…
