Just an update

It has been a couple of months and I wanted to catch up with what has been going on. I first want to say that I appreciate, more than you all could ever know the prayers and thoughts and just those of you who continue to check in on me. This is a battle even if the symptoms are not always visible and if I have learned anything over the past few months is it that. I can certainly feel all of the prayers and I know that gets me through many days that I couldn't otherwise.

I had a solu medrol infusion for three days in December and while the side effects lasted a little longer than the first treatment, I have gotten over them and overall had been feeling well until about a week and a half ago.  I have been learning and self journaling about things that cause my symptoms and pain to be worse and weather changes have certainly been one of them. As you can imagine, all of this weather has wreaked havoc on me! I was also feeling some pretty severe pain in my lower abdomen, and, since this is all new to me, Aaron and I thought at first that it could just be related pain but eventually it got to the point where I felt as if I could pass out. After a LONG night in the E.R. they told us they found a cystic mass in my pelvis and sent us to a Gyno in Paducah where I was told I will be having my right ovary removed soon.

Over all, as far as the MS goes, I am tolerating the Rebif injections that I give myself three times a week and the greatest amount of pain that I have is in my legs and somedays I feel like I can't make them work to get out of bed, but I love my job and being with my students, even on the bad days is the best medicine in the world. Please continue to keep us in prayer, not just  me but my husband and children as well. They work very hard to help me so that I can have a little rest time.

Remember, March is around the corner and is national MS month, many dont know this, but just like Pink is the color for Breast Cancer and Red is for Heart Health, ORANGE is the official color for M.S. wear orange in support of a cure for this painful disease!