How’s Your MS Today? Post-Flu, I’m Feeling Better

Time flies when you have a chronic illness! That doesn’t seem right, but I just realized that this month marks the year eight of us asking the monthly question, “How’s your MS today?”  How can it be?  Then I realized that we are soon to mark the end of our ninth year of the Life with MS blog and that this post is number 1,100!  The mind is completely boggled. In this time, you have used our monthly check-in to ask yourself – and perhaps ask those close to you, who may see things that we do not – how things are going.  In recent years we’ve added the Life with Multiple Sclerosis Symptom Scale (LWM3S) whereby we rate our current state of MS relative to the best/worst we’ve been since diagnosis (1=best since Dx.  10=worst since Dx). During my recent bout with the flu, I can honestly say that my MS was firmly in the 9 zone, and, had I been able to get out of bed to see how my legs did or did not work, it may have topped out.  Oy, I’m glad that’s over. Now, as I recover, I’d say that I’m hanging back in the 6 to 7 zone, but little things pop up in the days (and nights) that might push it back to an 8. I’ve got about five weeks before things in my world get really interesting with the release of my new book, Chef Interrupted and events in the United States around that. The plan is to lay low here in West Kerry and regain my strength so that we can all have a little bit of fun and tell the MS story.  The book has been well received thus far… So,...
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