pumpkin

(I guess I wrote this one back in September but never posted it...so here it is!)

I can't believe how quickly time has been passing.  Feels like yesterday I was my blog regularly when it's actually been a few months!! Sorry folks.

The leaves are changing colour, my heat has kicked on, the scarves and boots have been pulled out of storage and I'm craving pumpkin spice everything.  These are all signs of my favourite season - autumn.  The fall time usually meant summer break ending, school starting and seeing my friends on a regular basis.  The fall also brings my MS anniversary.  Three years ago I spent a chilly fall night on a hospital bed waiting to see the neurologist.

Looking back at my biggest MS symptoms, they all seemed to come around the same time of year.  Is the fall really that stressful of a time of year for me? Is it the climate? Allergies? All of the above?  I guess I'll never actually know.  Is anyone else finding a pattern to their disease??

This past week I've noticed my legs starting to feel funny.  I don't even know how to describe the feeling, maybe fuzzy with a touch of burning and throw in a bit of weakness and unsteadiness.  Fairly stressful if you ask me...


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Update since I last wrote this post:

So I finally called the MS clinic as my legs were not getting any better.  They insisted that I go to see my physician to rule out infection and to firstly rule out a urinary tract infection.  Now, normally you have symptoms associated with a uti so I was convinced this time it was a full relapse and the specialist didn't know what they were talking about.  But of course, they were right.  The walk-in clinic doctor seemed shocked that I didn't have any real symptoms but he put me on a round of antibiotics and the fuzzy feeling in my legs slowly disappeared.

Guess I'm relieved it wasn't an actual relapse and now I know to see my doctor before I start to panic...and I'll go sooner rather than later.