Update

I just wanted to give everyone a little update. Nothing clever, I don't have time for clever right now. I have been locked up in a dark room editing senior pictures for the last week so I am far behind on my every day tasks. My two sisters are coming from Georgia to Ohio for a visit next week and I have to get caught up so that I can enjoy their visit.

Last week was a very good week for me physically. No real pain, no real numbness or any other weird thing that MS does to you. The walk is still not perfect but definitely getting better. I had two doctors appointments. One with my hematologist ( he set me free) and one with my family doctor. My family doctor made an appointment for me at Cleveland Clinic. I can't get in until Jan. 2. If I don't get in to see them until then, it will be four months since my attack. It takes six months for any MS medicine to really start to take affect, which means it will be ten months from the time I had my first diagnosed attack until medication starts to help me. That doesn't even take into consideration that in hindsight I suspect I have had MS for well over a year. I don't know if I am willing to wait that long. Having MS is like playing Russian Roulette. You never know when or where a lesion will happen and if it is in a relevant spot it could cause you to be unable to walk or talk or breathe or eat. Do I want to gamble like that? I feel like a walking time bomb! We have a local MS specialist and I am toying with the idea of trying to see if I can get in at her office sooner than Jan 2. These people are messing with my life here!

So far this week I have had a little pain but nothing unbearable. The electrical shocks kept me up all night two nights ago, this time in my legs. Yesterday I had them in my right hand. I stayed up until 3:00 Saturday morning editing pictures for a girl, so Saturday wasn't my best day, but overall it has been a pretty good past 10 days. I have too much work to do to sit here. I will check in again soon.

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