It's been a bit since I posted. Since then, I've moved into my fiance's home - and am spending a decent amount of time adjusting to it. It's a mess right now, which annoys me, especially since I was the one who volunteered to do all the cleaning while I was out of work. Oh, and I lost my job as of December. And I got diagnosed (or pre-diagnosed, depending on the doc) with MS, after I lost my vision in my right eye. 2008 was a great year.
But, I'm hoping that 2009 will only look up. I have a job lead - back at the bank I had left to go work for the family business. And, hopefully, I'll be back with my old assistant manager - we get along great and he knows about the MS, and it doesn't appear to be a problem for him. I am living in a house for half the cost of my previous apartment. Which is wonderful, since I had lost one of my main sources of income. Now, that my tests are done - spinal tap and MRI's, I am starting feel human again. I still get minor headaches, which are probably major to me since I rarely ever had a headache before this past month, but I'm able to move around and function without getting sick. I can finally start working on some of the wedding stuff - I was too sick before to even be happy about it. I also get to go to Ireland and Paris in July, for a friend's wedding - we're hoping to use it as a pre-honeymoon since we're getting to fly for only a couple hundred each!
Tomorrow, I am getting early and heading to the MS headquarters, here in Louisville, and getting some basic information from them. I also will, hopefully, have gotten referred to a new neurologist who will return my phone calls and get me on some meds already. I have spent a ton on groceries in the last week - switching some items over to organic and purchasing things like soymilk (dairy tends to be a no-no for some MSer's, and apparently for me, after a not so fun evening on Saturday). I am going to make sure to get myself into some set life-style change, back to yoga, back to working out, since I haven't had any coordination problems - just some minor tingling in my extremities.
I guess, I'm writing to get my life back some perspective, to vent, to reason with myself, to just feel like the old me, who use to write and cook and paint and do all those fun things that recently were evading me. I am on my way back to the old me - slowly but surely.