So much for trying to blog more. Sorry friends, guess that means my year is starting off great!!
I turned a quarter of a century at the beginning of the month and it was by far one of my best birthday's ever. It wasn't anything special, but somehow I really enjoyed it. There wasn't any drama, all of my friends came out and everyone had a great time - including me.
January is always a busy month for me, it seems like 80% of my friends were born in January. Every weekend I have been out having a few drinks, dancing, mingling and staying up late. It sure caught up with me this week though as I had the worst migraine ever. I never call in sick but this bad boy forced me to. Spending the day in bed with my puppy and a bottle of Advil managed to make it go away. *Fingers crossed* I never get one of those again.
I've also been spending a lot of time on twitter. @neenuh_bee is my alter ego and everyone knows me as Nina Braj. Some know me as the silly, wino, party animal, loving & friendly Canadian...at least that's what I hope they feel about me! I've made some great friends over the past few months. I love that they understand absolutely everything about me and yet they don't even know my real name! I've definitely built a family and I wish M.S. Barbie, Claire, Nick With MS, anonyMS, LisaA and many others lived down the street from me. Could you imagine what would happen if you put us all in a room with a few bottles of wine? Hah, and I wonder why they think I'm a wino.
Ok it's time for me to get to the point of this post. I'm contemplating fully "coming out" to my friends and family that don't know about my disease yet. The MS walk is sneaking up and I'm thinking it might be the perfect opportunity for me to bring it up. I'm pretty sure - actually I know - that a lot more people know about my health than I've told. People at work have approached me on it and I didn't even realize they knew. Also, some friends have been acting differently over the past couple years. Things go through the grape vine way quicker than a bottle of fermented grape juice lasts in my house.
In two weeks I'll be going on a work trip that will require me to wear a bathing suit. My thighs are covered in red bruises from my weekly Rebif shots and I bet I'll have to explain them to the nosey folk. Maybe this will be a good test run of "coming out". I can see how my colleagues and superiors handle the news and take it from there.
Anyone have pointers on coming out, because I'm about to get this party started ;)
