Last week I started a weird Wednesday post. I suppose I should continue that line of thinking. One thing I'm finding very weird is that my wife and I have switched to roles in a number of things. One of them is the temperature sensitivity, sort of. It used to be she was always cold. I would want the windows open and the ceiling fans on or I would overheat. We could never find a comfortable situation for both of us. This continued even when I had MS. There would be many evenings I would get so warm that I would have to take off my shirt till I cooled down. This change and I started taking a medication because of my arm, neck and shoulders spasming.
One night this got so bad her and Matt had to take we to the ER and they put me on a Valium drip. This fixed the problem and so since that night I've been on a medication because the spasms can become uncontrollable. The side effect of this is that my muscles don't get much use and I find I'm cold all the time. Now we have switched roles she is always wanting to open the windows or turn the fan up. We can't find a comfortable temperature to set the AC at either. Used to be when we went to outdoor music if it was about 68° I was comfortable and she would be wanting a sweatshirt. Last week we went to music and it got down to 70°. I was the one who needed the sweatshirt. I suppose the only good thing that has come out of this is I can be outside in the low 80's and as long as I stay out of the sun I am pretty comfortable. One thing about MS seems to be that nothing stays the same and that things are always changing. Adapting is now our middle names!
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