Sunday, October 23, 2011

Dumb!

I did a really dumb thing today.  I took a bath.

It was so cold in my home. Trying to save on electricity, we do not turn on the heat unless we absolutely have to. We have been heating the place in the evenings using the fireplace, but I did not want to start a fire, thinking that we would be leaving in a couple of hours to go to that dinner party (which I cheesed on anyway). Well, I got chilled to the bone this afternoon. So I took a bath.

I thought it would be okay if I just stayed in until I got "normal" warm again. But I got tired quickly. MS lassitude tired. Then I was too tired to get out... but staying in made me ever more tired. Bad cycle.

Sensory:
-Pins and needles: 1, just when I compress a nerve while sitting
-Tingles: 3, lateral edge of left hand
-Paresthesias (burning): 1, both feet--into right toes today
-Paresthesias (other): 0
-Numbness: 2, I keep touching my little toe to see if it's still numb. Of course it is. I even poked at it with a needle, and I seriously did not feel anything. Weird. That needle hurt when I poked an area that was not numb!
-Vision: 2, floaters, focusing
-Nerve pain: 1, left sciatic nerve

Motor:
-Gait: 3
-Sore muscles: 2, calves
-Fine motor: 2
-Weak muscles: 4
-Spasticity: 2--gastrocs, rectus femoris, bilaterally

Cognitive:
-Language processing: 3, had trouble understanding some things at church: General Authority quotes, people whose talks or lessons were disorganized, people who paused in the middle of or revised sentences frequently, and people whose articulation was not clear. I could not interpret one talk, because I could not understand it at all. Interpreting was very difficult during the first hour of church today, a little better during the second hour (probably because the first 20 minutes of that was a video that had sign language on it), and much better the third hour.
-Memory: 4, this impacted my interpreting. I cannot hold as much in my head as I used to.
-Attention: 1
-Confusion: 1

General:
-Fatigue: 8 is what it got to with the bath, but a lot of the day it was more like 6
-Balance: 3
-Sleep: 5, 7 hours but broken, was awake for a while, and had too many bad dreams. I think I only have bad dreams now, which is totally atypical for me. I normally have good dreams, with a bad dream maybe two or three times per year.
-Bladder: 2

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