In January I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). I had been out hiking with my daughter and returned home and my face felt numb. I wrote it off to being cold. After several hours of it being numb I was strongly encouraged to seek medical assistance. After two months of poking, prodding, scanning and lots of waiting I was diagnosed with MS. And I am ok with that I figure we are all going to go one day so MS will be my way out. But I also ride a motorcycle there may be a more immediate way out especially considering how folks drive around here. Anyway the adventure is the drugs that I have had to start using. It is a drug called betaseron. Sounds cool right. I have to inject myself every other day with this stuff. Getting cooler right. The drag is the effects that the drug causes. The drugs number two side effect is flu like symptoms. I get them in large quantities. Fevers, sweating, chills, joint aches. This is supposed to subside but I have not found that to be the case. I will give it some more time but so far I must admit the cure is worse than the cold. Given a choice between numb face or pronounce flu like symptoms I am really liking that number face stuff was not so bad. And so the adventure begins. Lets hope the doc is right and my body adjust to this stuff.
