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My name is Matt and I am 22 years old living with Multiple Sclerosis in SoCal. Most people fins me via my blog at http://www.mattsms.com and I work to connect people with MS from all over the world of different ages, genders, and walks of life.

Monday, December 31, 2012

Happy New Year 1013!

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Lucky 13! Haha this year (2013) better not bring the kind of luck that 2012 did! I need some change! Sorry I have not been online and getting my blog going, I have been... well... I thought it was a flare at first but now I am giving into the idea that I might be getting sick!

My temperature was going crazy! I felt hot but I was shivering like I was cold! I checked my temperature again and again – It ranged from 75.4 F to 99.9 F in less than 1 hour! Your supposed to maintain 98.6 F, hypothermia starts at 95 F, and a fever starts at 99.5 F so I was all over! At all times I was shivering even when my temperature rose. I wore a heavy jacket, gloves, a hat, sat next to the fire, had some soup, but even still I could not keep my temperature up.

On top of that I got really dizzy and my vision began to blur. Nice. So the world was spinning so much that I felt sick and I never feel sick. I really thought I could not maintain myself at one point so I stumbled to the restroom like some drunk but it was a false alarm... Walking has not been fun nor has sitting in a moving car, it makes me so dizzy, but I have not fell so that is good.

Now my temperature has stabilized at 96.7 F which seems to be “normal” for me at the moment. I do not feel cold so... yeah... We will see how tomorrow starts. Right now I am still dizzy, moving around just sucks! I turn my head and it takes the world around me a second to catch up. I was finally able to eat tonight though, I have just been so nauseous, Dramamine does not help too too much, so I just have to deal with it.

Unrelated: I have had really bad muscle spasms lately, like, a muscle will just jerk on it's own. It's mostly my arms/shoulders and hands making typing hard and resting even harder. Not easy to relax when your arm wants to jerk itself out of it's socket! The typing issue is another reason (besides laziness) that I have not been doing all that I planned on doing with my blog lately, it's just hard to type and enjoy it when every few seconds your hand jumps too far causing you to hit a bunch of random keys! Plus I can not see very well, I have to type in a huge font then shrink it down when I am done.

That reminds me, I bought some new glasses today, they were on sale for $60.00 USD. I was expecting to pay $150.00 USD so score! I won't get them for about a week because they have to make the lenses but baby steps as always. It will be nice to see again, to READ! I don't totally like the frame I got but they were cheap and they hold two lenses, that is all I wanted and for that price? How can I complain? So I can not wait to get those.

I am really hoping that tomorrow my dizziness clears up a bit. I am going to bed early tonight so I hope the sleep does me some good! I already celebrated New Year via Skype in Euro time so I feel fulfilled regarding the holiday haha! Drank like half a bottle of wine, then saw it was like 5.5% alcohol, no wonder I felt nothing, that is like juice! I don't even really like drinking but still! Haha...

Anyways, I hope you all have a happy New Year! 2013! Any resolutions? I have a resolution cluster haha, I hope I can work some out! Happy holidays and be safe!

4 Comments:

  1. I hope your acute symptoms disappear as quickly as they came on.

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  2. Finally someone caught that lol! That's what happens when you type without glasses haha!

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