Temperature Sensitivity

I have to say one of the strangest things about my MS is how temperature sensitive I have become. Monday and Tuesday I was having problems with my right arm, shoulder and hand. Not much response and a lot of stiffness. It was really bumming me out. Then I woke up Tuesday morning at 4:30 AM and I could not bring my right hand out of the covers. I felt like I was burning up. I had to wake my wife up and have her help me get cooled down. She checked the temperature and it was 76°. This is too hot for sleeping and I realized unfortunately it was time to turn the AC on.

I feel like such a pansy. I used to be able to sleep well until it was high 70s or low 80s at night just with the ceiling fan. Now 1° either way is too much. It’s very maddening and seems impossible the disease can act like this. My neurologist told me engineers have a hard time because were always trying to figure out why this or why that. I have to fight this urge to try to figure out everything. It is what it is and I just have to figure out how to address it. Or more accurately my wife does.

Last night the AC was on and I slept like a baby. My right arm, hand and shoulder are much more functional. I’m glad to get some of the use back in them and am glad it turned out to not be permanent. I suppose some day in the near future it will be permanent but for now I get to use them. Yesterday I enjoyed nothing and was in a foul mood all day. Today I’m enjoying reading in Hebrews. I love the book of Hebrews. I think it’s because I started reading the Bible at the beginning and learn of the Jewish system before I started the New Testament and read of Jesus. I had so many questions reading the Old Testament of why was this significant and why was that significant. Paul’s letter to the Hebrews makes it our all clear that Jesus supersedes and fulfills all of the Old Testament practices.

Today I was enjoying these verses:

“But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.” Hebrews 7:24-27 KJV

Every detail of the Jewish system of laws and worship were pointing to Christ and his fulfillment of all of our needs.