Multiple Sclerosis

Lorii is still in hospital, but will hopefully be home soon. Perhaps even later today.

The treatment for her MS is over for now and it is only the fallout from the steroids that is keeping her in. Before the treatment Lorii was a Type 2 diabetic, managing her sugar with diet and drugs. Unfortunately a side effect of the steroids is to send your blood sugar way on up, and for Lori it has just not come down. She is now waiting on Diabetes Specialist nurses to come train her on how to manage her blood sugar with self injected insulin. Whether this promotion to Type 1 diabetes is permanent is unclear, but they won't let her out of the hospital until the nurses have signed off that she is okay.

The doctors have signed of on her MS medication. Another self injected drug called Rebif. Lorii will have to attend a clinic for training on that too. The poor girl is going to look like a human pin cushion.

Choices

Well Lorii is still in hospital, will be until Friday, and today chooses which drug out of many to use to treat her MS long term. She now describes the sensation in her left hand as having a really tight rubber glove strangle it. They've given her some new medication to help with that but it is a cumulative one and will take some time to get working. The steroids given to help speed the MS relapse have screwed her blood sugar so much that she is now being taught how to inject insulin. This and the fact that she will have to self inject the new MS drug she has to choose today has really got her down. It didn't help that the doctors came and told her what her choices were, told her she had 24 hours to decide, and left her. Within a few hours of them leaving she had promptly forgotten what her choices were.

Latest news...

Well as I type Lorii is once again in hospital. Another MS relapse this time effecting her left arm. She still has the use of it, but it's both going numb and itching. She should be out soon, they're just keeping her in while they give her some medicine that screws up her blood sugar as a side effect.