Just had a WONDERFUL dinner with some wonderful friends tonight. It’s pretty awesome when 4 people can sit at a table, with the kids quietly playing upstairs, and talk and laugh for almost 5 ½ hours…we literally had to stop ourselves because the kids fell asleep on the couches.  Look so forward to doing it again soon.

I headed to a back specialist Friday morning.  Since the MRI report I gave them was a few months old they wanted to take another x-ray.  I was VERY excited to see, and hear the doctor say that the disk is NO LONGER COMPRESSED!!!  I was so happy I even teared up.  He did said that the space is narrow and needs to open up some more so he prescribed steroids to decrease inflammation and physical therapy to strengthen my back.  Not so sure about the physical therapy…I’ll stick with the chiropractor and training.

I explained the whole compressed disk/MS thing to him and asked if he thought the tingling was from the disk.  He said that from what he can see in the x-ray and from what he read in the MRI report the areas of tingling/numbness could be affected with such symptoms.  He then added, “But that’s your neurologist’s area of expertise”.  Well, he told me what I wanted to hear then through that curve ball that put doubt in my mind.  And of course he doesn’t want me doing certain things during my workout…which I appreciate, but I think at this point we pretty much have it all figured out.

Speaking of doubt…we were just talking at dinner and we pretty much have agreed that I need a second opinion.  I am becoming more and more baffled as to how I was diagnosed so quickly when it takes others months and even years.  The more I hear and read, the more I realize that this could possibly be a misdiagnosis.  Even if it isn’t a misdiagnosis, I am not feeling comfortable with my doctor at this point and I may need to change. 

We had our first yoga class at work Friday afternoon.  I am amazed at the response we’ve had to this.  I’ve never done yoga before and, I must admit, it felt pretty good.  I was so relaxed I could have napped afterwards. I’m already looking forward to the next class.  Everyone I spoke to gave lots a great feedback and there were only 2 minor complaints that can easily be fixed.

I was feeling okay today; tired though.  I did lots of cleaning after we moved the rest of the Christmas decorations upstairs. Then I prepared for our company tonight.  It bothers me that I become tired so quickly.  It seems the more I do without rest the more numb my leg becomes.  I’m just so thankful to God that, while the numbness gets worse, it always gets better.  Now it just needs to get betterererJ

I mentioned in one of my post during the week that I was meeting with someone who is getting ready to schedule her gastric bypass surgery.  Here’s the odd thing.  I was speaking to the lady who told me about her.  I asked her if she went to her church, she responded “yes.”  She also said she was in the choir  She started describing her to me and I realized she was a lady I saw at the Christmas Eve service and I thought to myself, “I wish there was something I could do for her.”  Well, now a couple of weeks later, I will be able to try.  She has an appointment at MUSC Monday morning, and then we will meet up for lunch and talk about things.  She is having serious doubts about the surgery and is only doing it for her daughter and husband’s concerns.  I’m excited about meeting with her, I’m praying there is something I can do, or say, that will convince her to avoid the surgery and start a program that will help her.