MS Post 6

Again it reminder that March is MS awareness month. One of my sons as asked if I can feel things in my appendages like my legs that cannot move except to spasm. I think he finds it strange that I can still feel but cannot move my legs. I have a deteriorated sense of feeling in the appendages that have problems working. I can still feel a number of things even though the feelings are dampened. I can still feel a lot and cold and have found out that I can feel when I spill hot coffee in my lap or on my arm.
When something hurts my foot or hands I can feel the pain and my response is that that appendage spasms by sticking straight out. It's really quite strange but again MS is what MS is.
I have a friend who is a paraplegic due to a farming accident and he must be very careful because he can no longer feel anything in his legs. He could get cut or frozen and never feel a thing. Me on the other hand I feel both for the most part.
One of the strangest things to me is that now my hands act very strangely when I'm in bed. As I lay there and do not move my body loses track of where my hands are. My brain thinks they are floating in the air above me. This sensation is very odd and I must move my hand a little bit so my fingers feel where they are. Of course there never floating above me it just feels like that. I don't get that feeling in my legs. I have no real explanation for these situations but do find them odd. MS is a strange disease but it is not a boring disease. There is always something new to deal with.