Full Mind

Category: My Life with MS

  • Dieting with MS – June Update

    After a setback from last month, when we traveled to NY, I’ve been back following the app, My Fitness Pal, the free version. I’m weighing myself monthly, usually between the 6th and 8th of each month. I honestly wasn’t expecting any loss because I’ve gone over the 1200 calories a day a few times. I’ve…

  • MRI

    This morning I had an MRI of brain, neck and spine. It’s been at least 2 years so I’m happy that he ordered new ones. They were with and without contrast. This time they put the IV in before I even went into the MRI. This was a smart move, previously they have always waited…

  • My Mind is Full Again

    So many things to do and nothing to do. My head is ready to explode! I’m not sleeping well. I go to sleep easy and wake up anywhere from 1 to 4, watch some TV to try and stop my mind and sometimes I fall back asleep and sometimes I don’t. I am overwhelmed thinking…

  • Dieting with MS – Update

    Since I’ve started seriously recording my calorie intake on My Fitness Pal, I’ve been weighing myself monthly. Since my starting weight of 143.2 on April 8, 2021. The 2nd weigh in on May 6, 2021 was 140.4. I lost 3 lbs. I’m happy with that. There is a problem in that since May 6, we…

  • Being a Miserable Person

    We are back from NY and I have concluded that I am a miserable person. How have I come to this conclusion? Very easily, since most of the trip I felt put upon, slighted and downright miserable. After years of therapy, I do recognize that no one can make you feel this way, that it…

  • MS Doctor’s

    When I moved down here I had a very hard time trying to get an appointment with an MS doctor. See My Life with MS – Background. Now I’ve had the same doctor for 10 years. I see him every six months. A couple of weeks ago I received a letter canceling my appointment in…

  • Languishing

    Thank God! Finally what I’m feeling has been given a label, “languishing.” All this time I thought it was just plain old depression. I have had these feelings on and off throughout my whole life, so now because of Covid, there are a greater number of people feeling the same. I’m confused, is this different…

  • “Maggie’s Song”

    The other day my sister-in-law sent me the lyrics to this song by Chris Stapleton. After reading and listening to the song I was in tears. Not only did he describe my Maggie, but the picture of his dog, looked just like my Maggie and his Maggie is from Tennessee and so was mine. Chris’s…

  • Honestly Honest

    I haven’t written in a few days because I didn’t want to. Honestly, I didn’t know what I could say, or how to express what I’m feeling. I’m down again and I didn’t want to write the same old circumstances that bring me down yet again. I don’t want to complain, yet my head is…

  • Dieting with MS (trying)

    143.2 pounds. That is what I weighed in at 2 days ago. I came back from the Carolina’s, this time determined to lose weight. Please don’t get on me about my weight. I have lived most of my adult life weighing anywhere from 120 to 130 lbs. Knowing that if I didn’t have MS I…