Well Hello There...

I'm sorry I haven't written. I'll try to do better. I'll also keep promising that over and over...

:-)

My weekend was not so great. I just didn't feel good in general. Somedays I forget I have MS, and then somedays, I forget I was ever normal. And I know that's bad because I don't feel, even on my worse days, what some people with MS feel. Working in the hospital, especially the radiology department, I see people who are affected by MS everyday. Some seem perfectly normal... some make me want to fall on my knees and cry.

Back to my weekend... I just felt weak. Irritable. Just generally yucky. I tried getting around and making the most of it, but I mostly just got too hot. Heat and stress are two very bad agitators of my symptoms.

Friday night I went out to my friend's house to go swimming. It felt good, but I was already exhausted. Then went out with my brother and sister-in-law to TGIFriday's. On a Friday night in a town where there is very little to do, it was a loud busy place. That didn't help. I slept in until like 9am on Saturday, then went grocery shopping with my parents. My mom is disabled so I try to help as much as possible. I had to load all the groceries onto the register conveyor belt, then take them from the bagging racks and put them back in the cart... then get them out to the car and load them into the car, in the heat. My dad wasn't around for this part because he needed a cigarette. He did help load into the car... but by then, I was already spent. But I tried to keep going.

Saturday afternoon, I went to my brother's nephew's birthday party. At Chuck E Cheese's. Yeah, also didn't help. Loud and busy and hot.

Then we went back out to my friend's house for a cookout for my mom's birthday. Again, it felt good, but I just generally got too hot. Then I got stung by the world's largest bumblebee. And it has left a welt on my back the size of my fist. A very red, hot, itchy, sore welt. It hurt so bad. It's weird that you forget how much being stung hurts, until it happens again.

Sunday was good. Enjoyed church. Tried to rest a little, but didn't have much time to.

It's weird that I end up going back to work on Monday's in order to rest Haha! And I have a STRESSFUL job.

And tomorrow, I promise to have a more positive post. I'm sorry for all the negativity, I just needed to share about my no-good-very-bad-feeling-weekend.

Leave me love!