Feeling better

I am feeling heaps better. I had a MRI scan on the 26th and will get the results when I see my neurologist on MayI5th. I really am feeling heaps better. I am still really tired and lethargic, but, I am cross stitching. I have not done any bears, I do not have the energy for those at the moment, but, I will soon.

Pics below are of a cross stitch I designed and made to take up to my "retreat". I have a cabin in country Victoria. It really is a retreat for me, hence, the making of that cross stitch. The other pics are of a cross stitch that I am designing as I stitch. It will have some sort of verse in it, but, I am not sure what, yet.

Update

Well, I am still having this MS attack.

Unfortunately, it is worse and after speaking to a MS councelor, it seems it could very well take a few months before things get better.

Oh well. As long as it does not get any worse, I can cope, even though I am now having up to or actually, probably more than 90 attacks a day. So be it. I can work between attacks.

I am seeing my GP again this afternoon and I am seeing my neurologist on Tuesday. I have been put on a high dose of steroids and I am nearing the end of the 2 week course, thank goodness. They have not made me any better but they have made my appetite horrendous and I cannot stop eating and I have put on 4 kilos in the last 2 weeks and I am very unhappy about that.

I have not been to the gym for 3 weeks. I used to go every day. I just cannot do it at the moment, I am too ill from this stupid attack.

I made a huge pot of vegie soup yesterday and now, everytime I want to pig out on food, I have a cup of soup. This is helping, but, I do feel despair and panic at the weight gain and my loss of not being able to go to the gym.

Anyway, enough "poor meing". I really am ok and I am alot better off than many others, so, I need to remember this and be grateful. And I am.

In between attack, I am busy re doing my craft website. It is slow going at the moment, but, it is getting done. :0)

A finish

Managed to get one of my new pictures stitched.
I am still going through an MS attack, but, I can work between bouts and this is good.
I am happy. :0)

An MS attack

I have been quite ill since late March, which is why I have not uploaded any new pictures of my work.

I have Multiple Sclerosis. I was diagnosed with it over 7 years ago and despite a few ups and downs with it, I have mainly been in remission for the last few years.

Unfortunately I am no longer in remission and have been trying to cope with severe weakness on the right side of my body (arm, leg, face) for the past couple of weeks.

There is no cure for MS, but, you tend to go in and out of remission with it and even now, after only a couple of weeks, I do feel that my arm and leg are improving.

The attacks are not constant, though, I am having up to 70 attacks a day of severe weakness on the right side of my body and though the attacks only last for a minute or so, when they occur I cannot walk or hold anything in my right hand.

Of course, in between attacks, I have actually been doing some new cross stitch designs, which I am really excited about and will be showing in this blog, after the Easter break.

I am going away for a few days, to the country, with some friends and I will be back on Sunday night. Hopefully, by then, I will be feeling alot better.

I do feel better today and I have had less than 20 attacks so far and this is very good. The steroid medication I have been put on must be working, finally. Of course, the side effects of this high dose of steroids is another story.......................... lol lol

Anyways, I will be back next week with photos of the work I have been attempting to do over the past couple of weeks.

Happy Easter to everyone.

hugs, Cathie