Where to start? First off I need to apologize for anyone I never got back with and will be following up soon with you (sup buckaroo)
I've had some changes throughout my life that have affected me thru the years and now its come down to this. Yes I am venting a bit, but shit happens I guess. At the age of 25 I'm diagnosed with Rheumatoid arthrities and I am told i would be going crippled in the next decade after that. I beat that hands down with my military and excerising. Next last year, I'm diagnosed with diabetes that shuts down my army career. (some of you may remember that post) Well this year, I get a pleasant suprise.
Around March, I kinda start forgetting stuff and am slightly off balanced. As time goes on, i start forgetting conversations i am having with people in real life and in different forums i am associated with. My typing goes and a few of my motor skills start dimenising. I've always taken pride on my grammer and even that gets difficult sometimes. I ended up having my wife start typing stuff for me so that i could try and live a normal life.
Anyways, around April i started falling down while walking and ended up in the emergency room. My right side of my face went numb and it felt like a dentist shot some numbing crap in the mouth. I ended up with about 95 percent hearing loss in that ear too. The emergency room initially thought it was a stroke caused by my diabetes. But since being diagnosed with that last year, ive always taken care of myself. Anyways, they did an ekg and a ct scan on my head. nothing was found so they sent me home. The next morning i woke up and immediately fell out of bed. I couldnt stand up properly and couldnt waldk for anything. My wife called my doctor and told her and she told her to take me back to the hospital. when i got back to the emembercy room, they did another ekg and ct scan of my brain again and found nothing. They then decided to admit me. I stayed there for a week and during those first few days they did a 2 mri's of the brain and spine and a lumbar puncture to drain fluid from the spine. and during that week, my symptons go worse. my talking and speech was garbled, hearing on the right was down to minimum and right side got puffy. my leg also went somewhat numb on the right side. The neurologist finally decided to make an appearance and gave me the bad news. I'm in an intermediate stage of Multiple Sclorosis. My first question to him was what the hell is that? After explaining it to me life kinda paused for a bit. I thought "what the hell did i do to deserve this life"????????????????? Turns out i had lesions throughout my brain affecting my central nervous system. Hell even my head started bobbing!
Well fast forward a bit and the doctor wanted to do steroids with a product called Rebif. Oh and i was told that i probably never drive again or walk without a cane or wheelchair. The steroids suck as i've been on them now forever (low dosage) and the Rebif is a 3 times a week injection. The problem with the steroid shots is that i ended up having to take insulin to control the high diabetes that wont go down now. So now I am taking 4 shots of insulin in addtion to all the other meds that I have to take daily. Has any of this helped? not really..... I had another mri done last week to see if any of the lesions have stabalized or whatever they call it. The only news i got out of that is that i got 2 new ones forming. And now the swelling on my right side has increased a bit and they need to drain that side of the head. I'm probably gonna have that done in the next 3 weeks if not sooner.
Anyways, I just wanted to let people know that i communicate with here or have before. Please accept my apologies for not getting back with oyu sooner. if there is any money owed out there to anyone please let me knw.. Like i said, i had my wife correspond in my name a couple of times but that got real old and she does so much more for me these days. I'm trying to make the best of things and have come to grips with my life. Sucks cause i had just learned to solder and was getting somewhat better with it. now its hard to concentrate on that.
Anyways, thats pretty much it! it is what it is. If i dissapear from here for a time being, atleast people will know lol. My attitude has changed on life and its all good![:)]()
I made peace with it and am looking forward to the next chapter on my life. Here is a current snap shot of me these days.
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I've had some changes throughout my life that have affected me thru the years and now its come down to this. Yes I am venting a bit, but shit happens I guess. At the age of 25 I'm diagnosed with Rheumatoid arthrities and I am told i would be going crippled in the next decade after that. I beat that hands down with my military and excerising. Next last year, I'm diagnosed with diabetes that shuts down my army career. (some of you may remember that post) Well this year, I get a pleasant suprise.
Around March, I kinda start forgetting stuff and am slightly off balanced. As time goes on, i start forgetting conversations i am having with people in real life and in different forums i am associated with. My typing goes and a few of my motor skills start dimenising. I've always taken pride on my grammer and even that gets difficult sometimes. I ended up having my wife start typing stuff for me so that i could try and live a normal life.
Anyways, around April i started falling down while walking and ended up in the emergency room. My right side of my face went numb and it felt like a dentist shot some numbing crap in the mouth. I ended up with about 95 percent hearing loss in that ear too. The emergency room initially thought it was a stroke caused by my diabetes. But since being diagnosed with that last year, ive always taken care of myself. Anyways, they did an ekg and a ct scan on my head. nothing was found so they sent me home. The next morning i woke up and immediately fell out of bed. I couldnt stand up properly and couldnt waldk for anything. My wife called my doctor and told her and she told her to take me back to the hospital. when i got back to the emembercy room, they did another ekg and ct scan of my brain again and found nothing. They then decided to admit me. I stayed there for a week and during those first few days they did a 2 mri's of the brain and spine and a lumbar puncture to drain fluid from the spine. and during that week, my symptons go worse. my talking and speech was garbled, hearing on the right was down to minimum and right side got puffy. my leg also went somewhat numb on the right side. The neurologist finally decided to make an appearance and gave me the bad news. I'm in an intermediate stage of Multiple Sclorosis. My first question to him was what the hell is that? After explaining it to me life kinda paused for a bit. I thought "what the hell did i do to deserve this life"????????????????? Turns out i had lesions throughout my brain affecting my central nervous system. Hell even my head started bobbing!
Well fast forward a bit and the doctor wanted to do steroids with a product called Rebif. Oh and i was told that i probably never drive again or walk without a cane or wheelchair. The steroids suck as i've been on them now forever (low dosage) and the Rebif is a 3 times a week injection. The problem with the steroid shots is that i ended up having to take insulin to control the high diabetes that wont go down now. So now I am taking 4 shots of insulin in addtion to all the other meds that I have to take daily. Has any of this helped? not really..... I had another mri done last week to see if any of the lesions have stabalized or whatever they call it. The only news i got out of that is that i got 2 new ones forming. And now the swelling on my right side has increased a bit and they need to drain that side of the head. I'm probably gonna have that done in the next 3 weeks if not sooner.
Anyways, I just wanted to let people know that i communicate with here or have before. Please accept my apologies for not getting back with oyu sooner. if there is any money owed out there to anyone please let me knw.. Like i said, i had my wife correspond in my name a couple of times but that got real old and she does so much more for me these days. I'm trying to make the best of things and have come to grips with my life. Sucks cause i had just learned to solder and was getting somewhat better with it. now its hard to concentrate on that.
Anyways, thats pretty much it! it is what it is. If i dissapear from here for a time being, atleast people will know lol. My attitude has changed on life and its all good
I made peace with it and am looking forward to the next chapter on my life. Here is a current snap shot of me these days.