
It’s Thursday, I’m sitting here watching the first season of Fresh Prince, Love it! Some friends got it for my birthday. I love watching Will Smith back in the day. He wears some crazy clothes and the hair! It’s something else!
The last couple of days have been trying. I had a rough night on Sunday, my eye hurt so much and caused a cluster migraine on the one side of my face but that went away and the rest of this week I have been taking it easy and I am feeling a lot better. I have been experiencing some blurriness and my left eye is still off, it’s not as bad as what happened to me last year when I could barely see but it is enough to really annoy me and give me a headache. I spent a couple of hours with the eye specialist yesterday and he says its 90% Optic Neuritis which is the same thing that happened last year. This is my second MS episode. It takes two to diagnose and I am seeing my neurologist at the end of June so at that point we will talk about getting medication which is ongoing injections to help slow down the disease. It’s different for everyone, it’s been a year since my last episode but after doing research it’s better to start medication early to prevent any permanent nerve damage. If you research MS, the majority, over 55% are diagnosed after having Optic Neuritis..It’s how the disease usually first shows itself.
I don’t know much about MS, I am learning more every day but I think every time these episodes happen they can affect your nerves long term. I am sure my eye will heal and I will be okay in a couple of weeks but the problem is I don’t know what the next episode will be or how sever. So I am thinking I will go on medication to make sure the disease is slowed down, I am sure if I got another MRI today it would show more scaring, the last one I took wasn’t concerning but who knows, obviously this is very real and not something that is just going to go away. I need to take proper percussions to make sure I can live a long healthy life.
So right now I am just hoping that I can take my driver’s test coming up, I can function Ok but I would like my eye to get back to normal so I can do my best. I am doing really well, I have my moments when I feel like it’s all too much and some days are harder than others but I feel so blessed. It’s hard because the past 3 summers I have been experiencing some type of pain, I haven’t really been able to enjoy myself but when I think about it, I feel so lucky and blessed because this hasn’t happened while I was in school and it always happens when I have down time which is good. I was able to celebrate graduating and my birthday and enjoy it.
So I am optimistic and ready to enjoy life. I am still working on finding a job….well mostly waiting and hoping but in a couple of weeks I plan on working anywhere doing anything! I am looking forward to the rest of summer. I just want to get into a groove and get going, there’s so much I want to do. So I don’t need anyone to worry about me I am going to be Okay and things are under control. Now…back to Fresh Prince!
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