aka R’acquel

Day 3 of neck pain, in quite a fucking bad state at the moment. Day 3 of not getting better but worse, it’s not a good sign. My past is begining to haunt me today.

Had trouble driving in the car on the way home after dropping my son off at school. Couldn’t tolerate the jarring motions, my hand was against my neck alot. I bought a foam cervical collar brace yesterday.

The jarring was painful. Brought back memories of being pregnant when Multiple Sclerosis entered into my life at wk 17 way back in February 2001. We were driving in a hired ute to buy furniture from Birkenhead Point for our new appartment in Newtown. The bumping off the car with jolting pain like that - it wasn’t fun to re-experience the same thing today. My mind had vivid flashbacks of being in the ute. At least our Ford Fairlane has much better suspension! *lol*

It’s exactly 6 years since MS hit me bloody hard. It started with a urinary tract infection battle, followed by a 3 week flu, then neck pain like this.

My life’s recently re-experienced this battle. UTI. The local GP almost prescribed Bactirin, which i’m allergic to. I ended up with amoxyllin - the same as i had been given during pregnancy. It didn’t work, UTI returned again - treated with Keflex for the second round. I don’t feel it worked properly, but i think it’s just about out of my system now after a few weeks. I’m just over a recent flu. Not as bad when i was pregnant. Now i’m dealing with this neck pain that hasn’t shown improvement in 3 days, seems to be getting worse.

I’ve been pretty much in complete remission this last year. Hardly any relapses/flare-ups. Body completely recovered. The fact that my body was able to recover physical sensation completely is bloody amazing.

It’s getting harder to move my head. It will hopefully just get better, maybe i’m dealing with a really bad neck-strain but atm - it’s not going well.

Anywayz. I’m not scared.