Chest pain, hard to breathe, had to tear off my bra under my shirt and the pressure and pain was nearly unbearable. Tried taking some medicine, laid down and prayed. The tightness around my chest was so frightening until I realized that this may be the so-called “MS hug”. I’ve never experienced this symptom before and after what I went through today, I hope to never experience it again. I still feel some of it right now, but the pain has at least been cut in half thanks to my muscle relaxant and time (took about 5 hours to calm down a bit)… So it’s somewhat tolerable. I’m wondering if today’s 90 degree weather and the AC breaking in my car is responsible for this miserable symptom.
At least it’s just a hug and not a heart attack, right? But calling it a hug is just way too kind of a description.
I really wanted to post about something specific tonight, so much so, that I thought about it for hours in bed while I couldn’t sleep last night. However, today has been a crazy busy day and being sleep deprived and my eyes giving me grief, I am limiting myself to this few uninteresting lines of blurry dribble.
My to-do list from last Monday is still sadly open and unfinished. Life decided to throw me a curve ball, as usual. My eyes decided to get worse throughout the week, prompting a call to my neurologist on Wednesday which ended up getting me on a 5 day course of IV steroids. I had to drive downtown on Thursday evening to the infusion center, go to the hospital on Friday, get a home health care nurse to come out on Saturday and Sunday, and I had one more hospital visit today. Needless to say, we decided to postpone my youngest’s official 5th birthday party so that I could get all this stuff taken care of. The highlight of all of this was my ability on Saturday to see well enough to take my kiddos to the movies.
Right now I am still struggling with the vision in my right eye. It’s actually taken quite a while to write this post – thank goodness for spell check! The left eye seems to have gotten a bit better. Now we just wait to see what magic my medication will have performed *fingers crossed* Hopefully, I’ll be able to relax a bit tonight after the boys go to bed and let my body start to really heal.
