Today I became upset when I was reading a forum thread about compensating for MS deficits... strategies that people use. They ended up being nearly all about cognitive problems. I remembered that woman who sat next to me at the MS dinner, who asked me my name half a dozen times. It was not that she was saying that she had forgotten it and could I tell her again. She seemed to think she was asking me for the first time... every time. I do not want to be that way! I do not want to lose my intellect. So I cried a little this evening. Now I feel like crying again.
Sensory:
-Pins and needles: 3, any place that has even a little pressure. Right now my butt and backs of thighs, because I am sitting back on the couch. I also had pins and needles in my right calf again.
-Tingles: 0
-Paresthesias (burning): 1, I have some in my left foot right now
-Paresthesias (other): 0? Sometimes the line between paresthesias and pins and needles can be hard to distinguish.
-Numbness: 2, usual spots plus semi-numb left thumb
-Vision: 0
-Nerve pain: 3, left leg as always
Motor:
-Gait: 3, slow and stiff. Actually, it was ok in the morning but got much worse in the afternoon. Like a robot this evening.
-Sore muscles: 8, OMG my quads
-Fine motor: 2
-Weak muscles: 5
-Spasticity: 7 for quads, 2 for gastrocs
Cognitive:
-Language processing: 3
-Memory: 3
-Attention: 1
-Confusion: 2
General:
-Fatigue: 4
-Balance: 3
-Sleep: 2, eight hours of totally unbroken sleep. See below.
-Bladder: 1, A thank you note to my bladder: I really appreciated the way you behaved last night. Not waking me up after five hours was really thoughtful of you.
Grieving: I really need to sit down and think. But I do not want to take the time. Avoiding? Or just lazy?
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