All weekend we did music at Blackwood Uniting. Well, I did workshop sessions Friday night & Saturday morning, but then Dorothy joined me for 2 services on Sunday morning & a singing time after lunch. It all went pretty well, I think.
Tonight at 5.30 D & me were at the gym. I usually do 5 minutes of cycling & then weights, but tonight I decided to join Dorothy in a class of cycling, running & gym machines. 15 minutes of cycling went well, better than I thought it would. But then during running my eyes started to play funny tricks & my balance felt dodgy. Instead of doing the last part of the session, I left, walked home & started making tea.
MS strikes again! Maybe just the rising temperature, but possibly also the vigorous exercise causes some of the symptoms of MS to surface. While I was diagnosed with the disease only in 2006, I’ve probably had it since the mid-90’s. Primary Progressive MS strikes later, in the mid-40s, & as many men as women are likely to get it, unlike the more common forms which afflict far more women. It tends to be slower, less severe. But of course, it never goes away & you don’t recover from it. The nervous system continues to get more & more scars. (Multiple Sclerosis = Lots of Scars)
I’m hoping that as I start my 62nd year it will continue to make slow progress in me. Maybe I won’t be wheelchair-bound. And maybe I’ll learn to deal with it more gracefully & more graciously.
