Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Rotten day!



How many of you awake to feeling just plain awful?
I know, not too often, I hope. Healthy bunch, my pals!
My relatable ones, though sadly too have MS, as well as other notable ills.

Sadly, my days to recall this feeling are way too many!
All I can say as is that today was another one for me to try to forget.
Although, specifics while still fresh in my mind were not being able to get out of bed to walk at all, fear came over me; is this the next step or non-step in my chronic illness called Multiple Sclerosis?

My legs were beyond weak and numb, as well as a strange aching feeling in both as if I were again having an electrical wire going down both legs simultaneously or a sciatic attack on both sides!

As anyone knows who does have sciatica it can stay with you for months, even years…but with Multiple Sclerosis it is a fleeting sensation in comparison, which determines the difference, but true sciatica can also act that way too. I think that I have had true diagnosed sciatica too years ago, but who remembers anymore, really. These  are my current experiences. But I do have spinal spondylosis as well which I do recall now that I had had sciatica, but only in one leg back in the 1990's, that is the difference not both sides at the same time!

The other devastating issue was a definite problem with breathing, every time I took a deep breath; the sense was that of having a broken rib, which was extremely painful on my left side!
And even though I had taken one of my 600 MG. of Gabapentin and 20 mg. of my Baclofen, my spaced out over the day anti-spasmodics, which for the day total 1800MG. of the Gabapentin and 70MG. of the Baclofen by days end, those were my before lunch dosages and even so I had that nasty throat spasm where my neck goes to one side with excruciating pain! Hubby made sure I took all my pills for that time frame, not just those, with twenty a day I have one of those pill divider containers and even though Hubby’s amount is considerably less he has one too, each of ours is color coded.

Hubby served me breakfast in my easy chair in the living-room, by lunch I transferred to the dinette table chair, where he still served me.
I was able to finally get in the shower between those two meals and it did appear to have a positive affect on me.
Sadly, I missed my first gym/rehab day in weeks, hopefully by Friday I will be able to go once again. Hubby helped me also with my Copaxone shot, today’s was in my right arm, but the injector would not work for him and so even though he set it all up, I ended up doing it this afternoon. He hadn’t done it for quite some time… I am more than sure with practice he could learn to do it again if necessary, but not yet, apparently.
By dinner I was able to help Hubby with that meal, and I felt useful once again, odd how that works, hmm?
Looking good for gym/rehab for Friday!

Days for all of us are so unpredictable, not just for me, and wasting time not doing things is frustrating for us all.
And so feeling as best you can to do whatever you can is the key to living your life to the fullest that one should do, no matter what!
Sure this again was just another blip in the time continuum and I know that as you do too.
So as the expression goes, tomorrow’s another day!

Moving on…
WELCOME HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE GEORGE ALEXANDER LOUIS OF CAMBRIDGE!

Now I did bring up the oddity that his initials of just his three names that spell out, GAL, what that means, who knows, but I found it interesting, an acronym as all initials truly are. Our one son’s initials spell out ASK, always thought he would perhaps become a psychologist, but he is not, but his gal is. Although, when he was a toddler I wrote those on his toys those three initials with dots between that he took to our condo pool and anyone who found them not with him would ask, worked out fine in those days! The other son's initials are DMK, which should have been MDK with my way of thinking, his cousin had the same last name and than they would have had the same first name with his also being the ‘M’ one that I liked, thus the reason for not doing it, but alas he too is not a doctor, but an engineer that son of ours. A mother can dream can’t she? LOL, too late now though.

On that ridiculous note of silliness, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share those overages with you know who and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

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