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Lately, I've been trying to amuse myself, or distract myself, by reading "Awkward Bitch: My Live with MS" by Marlo Donato Parmelee. I had just gotten to the part where (spoilers, sorry) the narrator spilled coffee on her hand and foot without realizing that she'd done so when a thought suddenly occurred to me; a realization, actually.
The other night, when I was making pasta, I had accidentally splashed some of the pasta water over the edge of the sink when I was draining it and it had splashed onto my foot. I knew that it had splashed over because, being a bit of a neat freak, I followed where the mess went so that I could clean it up.
What I realize now, though, is that I don't recall ever feeling the pain of the splashed, HOT, water on my foot or leg. It's not like I had reacted and then forgot. It's that I'm now remembering that I didn't react to the heat at all.
Fortunately, there were no burns... at least it was a direct pour of scalding water on my foot but it should have been enough for me to react.
I guess what all of this leads up to is, while I've now written it down for my next appt (sometime mid-June) should it be something I should tell my neurologist about immediately? I'm kind of getting the feeling that the secretary started to hate hearing from me.
The other night, when I was making pasta, I had accidentally splashed some of the pasta water over the edge of the sink when I was draining it and it had splashed onto my foot. I knew that it had splashed over because, being a bit of a neat freak, I followed where the mess went so that I could clean it up.
What I realize now, though, is that I don't recall ever feeling the pain of the splashed, HOT, water on my foot or leg. It's not like I had reacted and then forgot. It's that I'm now remembering that I didn't react to the heat at all.
Fortunately, there were no burns... at least it was a direct pour of scalding water on my foot but it should have been enough for me to react.
I guess what all of this leads up to is, while I've now written it down for my next appt (sometime mid-June) should it be something I should tell my neurologist about immediately? I'm kind of getting the feeling that the secretary started to hate hearing from me.
Thank goodness the numbness went away. but a few of the scars from burns are still around.
I was peein and looked at my side with the shirts all up and the undies down and saw that bruise my mum started being all concerned about that she saw on my back yesterday. There's apparently somethin that scratched me when it happened cause there is this little inch or so of apparently my skin that is still attached to me and hurt when I tried to just pull it off. I know I fell a few times up in Bangor when I was alone at my apt. last week, but I don't remember anythin really hurtin me; causing me to bleed! I mean sure I got bruises on my hand, arm, leg, toes, upper arms... who keeps track?!!? But I really don't know what I even fell on besides the floor! So what, the shag rug clawed me up?!? Or was it from the crutch that I was tryin to get to the chair that I usuallly have a big teddy bear sitting on (Max) WAS sitting on and had been OFF that chair for 3 days now so that comfy chair clawed me...?? No idea what/ how it happened, but I guess that is why my back and side kinda've been hurtin me a bunch lately.
I thought it was somethin with one of the Joe Boxer shorts bein wayyyy too tight for me to bother keepin anymore cause I am obviously getting too fat to wear this pair that pair anymore it's hurtin me!!
It's just odd how we think sometimes even to ourselves.
I also have to be careful in the shower. I can't tell you how many times I've gotten out & my skin's flaming red. Just another MS thing to deal with:P
After 6 months it is going away, slowly. No one knows how it got there or how it happened!