No, seriously. Happy day! My medication came today! And, as an added bonus, Laurel, the nurse was able to fit me in to show me how to mix up the liquid gold that I will be injecting into my belly. But wait, it keeps getting better! Work let me leave early to meet Laurel, and then....I know, how much better can this get?? I had dinner with Renee! And it was happy hour, so the appetizers were half off! I'm so ok with this MS stuff!! (At least for now....)
So, doing the math, it was exactly 2 months ago today that I was diagnosed with MS. How cool that it was today that I got started on my medicine? I don't believe in accidents....unless you count the time I had a sneezing fit and sort of hit my cruiser into a parked car. That was totally an accident.....
I'm trying to get this episode of my blog out before any adverse symptoms from the medicine start. If I wait too long, this may have a whole different tone to it!
All the equipment they gave me is very cool. Syringes, little vials of medicine, needles, even an auto injector. After practicing giving the shot 4 times, twice with just the syringe and twice with the auto thing, I decided that just giving it with the syringe would be a little easier for me. Luckily I was a vampire before I became a cop, so I have some experience with needles. Of course, I only took blood out, I never put anything in before.
It was time to do the real thing. I attached a couple things, pushed some stuff into a vial, mixed it up, put it in the syringe, put some ice on my belly and finally stalled for a bit and chatted with Laurel. Eventually, though, I had to do it. And, you know....it wasn't bad at all! It's a little needle and the ice numbed my skin so I really didn't feel it much. I think knowing what it is supposed to do for me makes me not mind all that stuff....it probably wouldn't matter if it did hurt.
So now I get to be proactive...I have taken my Advil and my night medicine and hopefully will sleep through the fever and flu-like stuff that 6 out of 10 people get. But, honestly, if it slows down more lesions and the disability part of it, I'll take the flu.
Besides, I love NyQuil, remember??
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Mary, I just finished reading your blog. You are such a great writer! I laughed, I cried, and I wanted you to know I'm praying for you. I can't believe you are going through this but your attitude is amazing! Continue to trust in God, let Him be your strength. Thinking of you often and lifting you up.
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Karen (Jodi's sister) :)