Update

It is been quite a while since I posted on my blog. I wanted to update how things are going. As you can probably guess they haven’t been going the best.

On Christmas evening two of my sons, took me to the new Star Wars movie. It was really good. While there I noticed a pain in my rib area, in the back near where my kidney would be. I thought it was just a slight bruise but when I woke Saturday morning the pain and moved to the front. As the day went on the pain increased and moved to the side. It started reminding me of when I had the infected kidney stone 1 ½ years ago.

That evening my wife and I went down to the emergency room at St. Luke’s. After CAT scan and blood tests they determined I had pneumonia on my left side. Probably a UTI also. I was admitted so they could administer an intravenous antibiotic. After the first day of antibiotic there was no change and I had actually gotten a little worse. Sunday night was the second round and I woke up Monday morning feeling a lot better.

The hospitalist then I could go home and continue the antibiotic with tablets. He also said I would always be susceptible to pneumonia and UTIs due to my MS complications. My breathing is very shallow and this causes germs to be trapped in my lungs rather than exhaled. The antibiotic caused me to be nauseous so I went on a antinausea medication middle of the week. I think I’m past these two infections now for the time being.

One last thing fact is that my right hand no longer functions very well at all. Is often curled up in a ball similar to my left hand. This makes it difficult to use my PC or iPad. I’m not sure if this is totally MS related or might be a response to the trigeminal neuralgia medication I went on a month ago. It’s probably partly both. My Primary care physician is initiating I request with my neurologist to see if a permanent solution could be found to my trigeminal neuralgia.

Due to this loss of hand use I am not sure how much I can post on my blog or Facebook in the future. I will attempt to if possible but with everything involved with this disease it just gets harder and harder and never easier. I hope everything is going good with my readers.