Hello 2010!

by Jane D.
(Southern Indiana)

Hello 2010

Oh, which day is good for an update? None, I suppose, so I'll jump in anyway. This winter...about like everyone else's I expect. We're not used to much snow here in southern Indiana, but this year is an exception as we've had plenty. Not that I've been out in it other than in the drive to hastily get in the car. But our grown son contracted a cold which meant Bill and I awakened on the same day with it too.

Was it immediate or did it take a couple days before the wheezing started? It was a hard cold for both of us and a week later I was no better so I had to get a chest X-ray to rule out pneumonia. I was Ok there, but I definitely had bronchitis, and the new MS junk like the week of a static-y nerve feeling in my hip every three seconds for two weeks (so far), extreme weakness in my lower legs when I awakened in the middle of the night, and general malaise. My GP put me on pred for two weeks, tapered. Plus there was that one day where I had numbness even in my face which used to be the last place it came. I had more sensory junk than I've had and more period other than walking difficulties, for maybe fifteen years.

I turn 61 in a few days and I guess that's my middle-age present--same as last year. The nerves in my right hand got