Friday, September 23, 2016

Medication update and things I can do

Real quick medicine update I have been on the Myer way diet for three weeks and the last week I was also taking my medication and having infusions. I felt like the diet was making me feel better, but that only lasted for three days which coincides with the three days I was having a steroids infusion. Once I was done with the infusion I started feeling a bit nauseous, I actually wondered if I was pregnant it felt a lot like morning sickness. After about a week of doing the diet while feeling sick I couldn't take anymore of the diet, literally the idea of eating another vegetable made me want to throw up (and I love veggies) so I put grains back into my diet and have felt so much better.  I'm still eating healthy not having a bunch of junk food but I am having my grains and I feel so much better. I think the 2 weeks of the diet before I started medication the diet really helped, but now that my body is on medication and it is going well, I don't think I need to do the diet (no Dr. told me to do the diet, I just felt like I should).  And now I feel like I don't need to do the diet anymore.
My mother-in-law has been so sad to find out I have MS really morning for my losses nearly as much as I have. She has been thrilled to see any little thing that I can do again or can still do and she suggested I should tell the world the things I can still do with MS, to give others hope. I thought that was a great idea so I will share some of the things I can still do. My MS showed up in a form of numbness particularly in my hands the worst in my left hand which has been hard because I'm left-handed. The worst thing has been losing my ability to write which is rather embarrassing when I go to my child's school and try to write something and I look like I should be taking handwriting instead of her. I have been doing physical therapy on my hand and my handwriting is slowly getting better. Before I had kids I was somewhat of an artist but with kids there's not a whole lot of time that I prioritized for painting especially because they get into it and make a mess. But when I was given restrictions in my ability from MS for me it made me want to prove that I can still do things and that I can keep learning and growing. I have decided that I'm going to still paint and have been amazed with the abilities I still have. I also married an adventurous guy and we love trying new things and doing things together like hiking, mountain climbing, boating... and though I don't have as much energy as I used to I can still do all of those things to a lesser degree. I even went to Lake Powell with my family and my awesome husband made a zip line into the water all I had to do was hold on to the rope for like 5 seconds and then let go and drop into the water. I really wanted to do it but didn't know if I could hold on long enough, so I grabbed onto one of the beams on the houseboat to see if I could hold on for 5 seconds and sure enough I was able to hold on and decided to try the zip line which I did and I'm glad I did because it was awesome! I wanted to try it again later in the week and part of the process of getting to the zip line was climbing a rope up a rock, I was really frustrated because my arm strength was not allowing me to pull up the rope this second time, but my husband tied me to the rope and helped lift me up and I was able to climb up the rope and go down the zip line a second time, I am lucky to have married such a wonderful man who wants to see me still live life to my fullest and helps me as much as he can. As time goes I hope to be able to find I can still do many many things I am grateful that though MS is no fun I can still do so many things.

this is my first attempt at painting after MS.

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