So things have been going well, I feel like I'm getting in the groove, although whenever I say things are well and I'm getting in the groove it feels like something happens to shake things up a bit, nonetheless I do feel like things are good now. My body has gotten used to the medication and I have no side effects yay. I was even able to go without eating for a day doing my religious fast and my stomach was hungry which is normal during the fast but I did not feel sick, which I personally counted as a little miracle.
As far as the diet I was on, I do not know what I will do with it I have not tried it again since I was feeling so sick on it, and as I reflect on how things went for those 3 weeks of that diet the only real positive result I found from being on the diet was great weight loss, which at first was exciting for me because my baby is now one years old and I'm trying to shed the baby weight. But good weight loss and terrible stomach pains do not equal healthy in my mind. So for know I will not use the special auto immune diet, but will stick with my normal diet, but if I ever feel like I should use that diet I will try it again.
My hands are still numb but super functional I can type a little bit I've started practicing piano not very good but I wasn't good before. I started painting again which I haven't done in many many years, that is the picture I painted in the previous post. It feels like getting MS and being Limited in my abilities has strengthen my desire to do as much as I can and to try new things. For a while there I used to run half marathons to help me lose weight and get into shape after babies, by the way I have six kids so losing baby weight is a regular part of my life. I ran my last half marathon about 2 1/2 years ago and had no motivation to run any more, but after having my legs numb and walking up the stairs being a challenge and then having my body function normal again, with medication I now want to prove that I can run a half marathon again. I have started running a mile at a time and would like to improve my time to a 12 minute mile. Once I get my speed up then I will start running more miles. There is a fun race called the Baker's dozen half marathon in December I don't know if I'll be ready to race by then but if I am that would be a fun race.
Something that is actually quite nice about all of this is remembering the parable of the talents in the New Testament I haven't necessarily been hiding my talents in the sand but I had let being a mom prioritize my life over developing my talents. Through this experience of getting MS and loosing physical ability and then gaining most of that ability back I have gained a new desire to develop my talents, and I have realized that I don't have to pick between being a mom or developing talents I can develop my talents while being a mom. In fact I can do it with my children, helping them find joy in the things I love to do like painting, running, singing and playing the piano.
Life is hard, but I am finding that having a positive attitude, really does bring joy into any situation, and I am so glad that I have faith in God, because that faith is the foundation of my positive attitude, and with that attitude life is good.
