Stay Away from that Stress!
That little incident last night (see below) brought home to me again how my Multiple Sclerosis doesn’t allow for a whole lot of stress to be put on my body without consequences.
After we found Lawrence, it took me a while to stop hyperventilating, and a couple of hours for the adrenaline to leave my body. I felt like I’d been beat up. Every muscle hurt. I was lying on the bed, watching tv (and listening to the monitor in case I heard the sounds of another getaway) when one of my toes started spasming and somehow pulling the muscle or tendon on the base of my foot. It was excrutiating.
George tried massaging the bottom of my foot, but longterm the only thing that worked was holding my toes so that the one toe couldn’t spasm. I actually considered duct-taping my toes together so I wouldn’t have to worry about it happening while I was sleeping.
You just have to laugh about these things, or the MS really will cripple you.