i'm no Neurologist.....

but even i can see how much the MS has progressed in that last few years !! YIKES !!

i started out, almost 6 years ago, with only 4 super tiny lesions on my brain. now i have 80+ that *i* can see. God only knows how many my neuro will be able to see, and how many there actually are there, visual and hidden.

know i know why 2008 was such a difficult MS year. those bouts that i kept having were not for nothing. lots of strange things were happening on the nerves inside my brain. the myelin sheath covering the nerves in my brain were being attacked day after day, for weeks on end... when i had the MS Fatigue and the MS Vertigo. and who knows if the constant pain in my lower back doesn't have something to do with MS too. i really should have a Spinal MRI... i'm positive that there are lesions there too.

ON A VERY, VERY GOOD NOTE : Provigil has been included in the Department of Health's *Medicine Basket* and now, instead of costing me $110, it's only $18.00 YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY !! now i can take a whole pill everyday, instead of the half-dose that i was financially restricted to. i just know that it's going to make my life even better... if that's possible :-)

God is Good !!!

peace out everyone :-)

week 6, day 5 -- thursday, jan 29th

a GREAT DAY, on all levels !!!

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food for the day:

meal #1 -- brunch somewhere, after going to the clinic.

meal #2 -- smoothie

meal #3 -- 2 grilled cheese sandwiches, with whole wheat bread and cheddar cheese, small garden salad.

meal #4 -- smoothie

walk(s) for the day:

** i'll be doing alot of walking in the morning when i'm doing my errands. also at night, when i go get my MRI in Jerusalem -- i did TONS of walking at the hospital !!!

activites for the day:

** lots of work on my website part of the day !!! -- done
** knit/crochet in the late evening, when i'm off the computer -- done
** go do all my errands in the morning -- done
** buy my new-used sewing machine -- done
** buy all the yarn needed to complete Nina's afghan -- -- done, but not for Nina's. i bought all the yarn for Sunny's afghan.

this is going to be a very fun day !!!

onward and upward !! :-)

medical crap that i HAVE TO DO !!

here are all the appointments i have for the coming 6 weeks.... some are good, some are just a pain in the ass:

1. Beginning of course on Chinese Medicine for Personal Use -- January 1, 2009 -- 10:00 a.m. -- YAY YAY YAY !!! -- in Modiin

2. Physical Therapy -- January 4, 2009 -- 11:00 a.m. -- in Modiin

3. Surgeon -- for gallbladder surgery -- January 5, 2009 -- 10:00 a.m. -- in Jerusalem, at the hospital

4. ECCO- gram -- January 5, 2009 -- 4:05 p.m. -- in Tel Aviv. this is going to be fun, going from Modiin to Jerusalem to Tel Aviv and back to Modiin !! yikes.

5. MRI -- January 29, 2009 -- 11:30 p.m. (yes, in the middle of the f***-ing night) -- in Jerusalem, at the hospital

6. Regular montly drs check-up, including blood tests, etc -- January 28, 2009 -- 10:00 a.m. -- in Modiin

7. Anesthesiologist -- February 18, 2009 -- 12:50 p.m. -- in Jerusalem at the hospital

8. Neurologist -- date unknown as of now... it all depends on the MRI, most probably the beginning to the middle of February -- in Modiin

9. gallbladder surgery -- in march or april, depends on how i take to the Copaxone once again -- in the hospital in Jerusalem..... uuuggghhh :-(


that's it !!! at least for now.

onward and upward... or else i'll just wither away....