Category: My Life with MS

  • Monthly Weigh In – August

    135 lbs! Yes, finally some progress, (3 lbs). I have been sticking to my daily 1200 calories, plus I have been riding the exercise bike, 2 miles daily and lifting 2 lb weights for multiple reps throughout pedaling. I don’t ride on volunteer days, (Wed. & Fri) although I could in the afternoons. By adding…

  • Friends

    We moved down here about 12 years ago. I have had an extremely hard time making friends. Girlfriends are very important to me. Having a friend to do things with helps me physically and mentally. Having someone to commiserate with, laugh and have fun with, and share interests with is priceless to me. I am…

  • Procrastinating………..Again

    Here I go again. I haven’t done anything that I need to do. I need to upload pictures from my phone and put into new albums and also resize. I’m intimidated and feel overwhelmed. I get very frustrated when working on the computer. I also need to sign up for another month of one on…

  • MS and Cold Feet

    For the past week my feet are like ice cubes. This is not the first time and it won’t be the last. The temperature outside is in the 90’s with a feels like in the 100’s. I am wearing sneakers with no socks, my usual during the summer. For the past couple of days I…

  • The Heat is On – Alone week of 7/17

    Today is Saturday, I didn’t get the mail yesterday, so I just came back in from walking to the mailbox putting out mail and getting yesterdays. Phew! The temperature reads 98, feels like 107. I wanted to take the golf cart but I parked my vehicle too close to ge it out. I felt like…

  • Overdoing It

    Yesterday the thermometer read 92 with a feels like temperature of 102. I was tired of being inside, (since Saturday) and since it was cloudy I decided I would go outside with 2 items on my agenda. One was to deadhead the Butterfly Bush and the other was to check the roses for Japanese beetles.…

  • MRI #2

    Now I’m heading into the machine with my Hannibal Lecter mask on. I was told it would be 30 minutes total, that with and without contrast. So because I have to count everything, to make sense, I start counting songs, I figured 6 or 7 songs would take about 30 minutes. My eyes are closed…

  • MRI #1

    If I didn’t have MS.…..….GET OVER IT! As I was waiting to be escorted in to get my MRI, (appointment was at 10:25, they asked to come in at 9:25, needless to say I was pissed because I had to sit there for an hour) Anyway, the thoughts started. I wanted to use my walker…

  • EVUSHELD for Coronavirus-Disease 2019

    At my six month check up with my neurologist, MS doctor, he stated that he wanted me to receive this medicine. It was explained to me that along with another COVID-19 booster, (In my case Moderna), I needed to do both. The reason being is that by receiving Ocrevus, which depletes my B levels, which…

  • Monthly Weigh In – July

    This month 138.8 lbs. exactly one pound less. I didn’t expect this number, if anything I thought I might have gained a few pounds. I take it with a grain of salt because its just a pound, it could be the time of day I weighed myself. I got out of the habit of doing…