Tangled

That's how my brain feels right now. Chris says that if someone looked inside my brain, half the time it would look like fireworks had gone off in a paint factory!

It always interests me the way people have different approaches to blipping. It ranges from beautiful photographs with very little text, to a snapshot from someone's day, to sharing very personal stories. Today's my day to share something personal, and I apologise in advance!

The past month or so has been a bit scary. It started with losing sensation in my body from the waist down, lots of tingling, not being able to walk properly and feeling that my legs don't belong to me. I ended up in hospital having blood tests, MRI scans and a lumbar puncture, all of which have shown that I have a lesion on my brain, one on my spinal cord and abnormalities in my cerebrospinal fluid. I have something called tranverse myelitis (inflammation of the spinal cord) and the good news is that it's going to get better. The not so good news is that it will take two to five months. Plus I have a 50% risk of going on to develop multiple sclerosis. The up side is that I have a 50% chance of not getting it!

I told Chris that getting a dog or a cat would greatly speed up my recovery, he said nice try but no!!

One minutes I'm fine with it all, the next I'm in floods of tears, so that's why my brain's a bit tangled.