Tag: Chronic pain

I love Fight Klub!

Brilliant Fight Klub last night with Hannah Bailey!

Had this T-shirt with me so whilst I finished the class early as usual to try my best to get my temperature down, I thought it most appropriate to hold this top up during the gruelling abs section!
Everyone seemed to appreciate it 😄

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Btw, I wish I could take part in the abs section but I have to use that time to cool down!
My internal thermometer is fooked thanks to my MS! When I over heat it triggers all of my symptoms, meaning I can hardly walk, balance, see, hear, talk, oh the list goes on!
At least once my temperature is at a safe level my symptoms subside and I just walk and talk like I’m pissed!

I’m so pleased I’ve found something that helps to keep me cool!
*the t-shirt doesn’t keep me cool, just to clear that up! It’s a cloth that is extremely cold when wet! For those that attend fight klub or any other cardio classes I attend, it’s that pink cloth I always have either around my neck or over my head like a nun! 😂😜*

I LOVE FIGHT KLUB!

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It’s not often help is given for free!

Today I hoovered up hundreds of star confetti from my birthday, hoovered dog hair out of the bath & hoovered up all of the tiny stones from the garden that end up in the kitchen!
All of this was after sleeping through half of the day!

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I once saw a post on Facebook from someone advertising her time. A lady that loves horses and was looking for horse owners to let her help out at their yard. She offered to groom the horse, exercise it and even do the dirty jobs like muck clean the stable!
Basically she was advertising herself to do the same job as a groom who would cost a whole lot more than she was asking because she was offering to do all the work for free!

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Why don’t cleaners offer to work for free!
All I ask is for someone to offer to do all of our housework for absolutely no payment because they love doing it so much and can’t get enough of their own!

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Not going to happen is it!
Didn’t think so!


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Another year older & still smiling!

Well what a wonderful day my Birthday has been!
I’ve been completely spoilt as always by DebbieRahRah!
Had over 100 lovely Birthday messages on facebook alone! – thank you! 
Been given so many beautiful cards & gifts – thank you again!
I got to spend the morning with my Mummy, DebbieRahRah & the kids!
Then it was lunch with my Daddy, Mummy Ju, MegaSpecial Sistaaah Sare from Yorkshire land, her hubby AndyRoo & their Son Lewis and of course not forgetting DebbieRahRah (can’t function without her!)
Back to ours for giggles with DebbieRahRah, Sare, AndyRoo, Lewis, Mummy & my brother.
WhatsApp call with my SistaBlista SkEmily in Texas because Skype wouldn’t work! Good job she has a brain & knows how to use it and press call on WhatsApp because I was starting to go into melt down mode when Skype wouldn’t work!
Then a quick change, apply more makeup & off out again for meal number 2! (I know 😱)

Like i say, an amazing day!
I only wish I could say that my MS didn’t get in the way but to speak the truth my pain has been so much worse than any other day! Because it’s been so full on & busy I didn’t have time to think about my medication other than thinking ‘all I can have is paracetamol because of allergies & normal MS meds’
It wasn’t until I went to get my night time meds that I realised I hadn’t taken ANY of my medication in the morning!

*WARNING – I may be slower than the norm tomorrow*

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Photo of a gift card purchased by me


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I’m so speshul!… Sunday dinner…

“Pork for Sunday dinner” I discussed with DebbieRahRah
“I’ll get some pork out of the freezer” I told DebbieRahRah
I put the already split and bagged pork in a plastic tub still in its bag & put the tub in a bowl of water for rapid defrosting!..

8 hours later when DebbieRahRah starts preparing dinner, chopping carrots, parsnips, potatoes etc etc, you know, the norm for a Sunday dinner. I hear a voice from the kitchen
“Oh! These are sausages! Not pork for dinner then!”

“Hmmm, I thought the pork looked like it was thin strips!” I shouted back!

Oh the things we do!

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Tried something different tonight!

Body Combat with Gill Cathcart!

Was it a good class?
Let’s do my Multiple Sclerosis symptom check list…

•Unable to control temperature? Yep ✔
•Hearing gone? Yep ✔
•Blurred vision? Yep ✔
•Spazzy legs? Yep ✔
•Slurred speech? Yep ✔
•Pins & needles in hands & feet? Yep ✔
•Numbness in my thighs? Yep ✔

Did I enjoy it? Loved it ✔✔✔
Will I go again? Yep ✔✔✔

Am I crazy? Well you all know the answer to that! ✔✔✔✔✔
😜😄😂

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MS= Being beaten up by your own body

Getting beat up by others is one thing, getting beat up by your own body is Multiple Sclerosis!

The first ain’t gonna happen! Not when I go Fight Klub!
We have no choice over the second though hey!

 


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My fight with ‘Fight Klub’ and Multiple Sclerosis

Please understand, before reading any further. This is a very raw, straight from the heart, honest blog!

There is also some rude language right at the end of this piece which I shall not appologise for as it’s how I feel!

 

I feel so angry!
It’s so unfair!
I just want to better myself!
I found something I love… Fight Klub!
It’s extremely hard core!
I love it!

Every time I do it I over heat
My core temperature rises so high
And I can’t control it!
I have extreme sensitivity to heat!

 

I’m trying different ways to keep my temperature down but nothing has worked yet.
Even after the class finishes my temperature continues to rise!
I have to finish the class before everyone else, to try and lower my core temperature enough to get to the car!

After the class my daily MS symptoms are worse, every single one!
My legs are weaker and give way under me
My vision blurs in my right eye to the point of not being able to see much
My hearing starts to fade and all the noises around me sound muffled
My MS fatigue is worse than ever
My speech slurs
I find it hard to catch my breath!
I can’t talk, if I do I loose my breath

 

I even get old symptoms reoccur!
My vertigo comes back
Last night I had the MS Hug again! Thats been a while! This is really not something you want when your already so out of breath you think you might pass out!

The MS hug is a symptom of multiple sclerosis where you feel as if you have a tight band around your chest or ribs or it can be pressure on just one side of your torso. Some people find that it is painful to breathe.

 

Last weak I fell after a fight klub class!
I hadn’t realised the change in floor height as I walked out of the room and ended up in a heap on the floor feeling sorry for myself!
Thanks to Hannah the instructor for speaking sense to me, I pulled myself together with only my pride bruised!

Last night’s class was one of my best classes! There’s no in between for me, I’m either all in or all out! I had it together, throwing my punches but not to hard, it is shadow boxing after all!

After the class last night my legs were weaker than normal and I was extremely hot!
It was during the journey home that it happened, a friend had taken us that night, we often take it in turns to drive. I say we when I really mean my partner and our friend take it in turns to drive! As if i could drive after that class!
I must look an absolute state afterwards, but that only reflects how hard I’ve worked!

I think it can be quite a shock for people to see me like that! I know it must be upsetting when it is out of your control and there is litterally nothing you can do to put me right.
Why do I do it to myself? Because I have found something that is just perfect for me to let out my anger, my frustration! I just need to learn more self control and not put every ounce of energy I have into it because of course, I still have to be able to walk back to the car afterwards, oh and then there’s the walking from the car to my home when we return!
Being carried to the bungalow is not going to be an option! Not again!

It was years ago that exercising was a big no no if u have ms but then they learnt, the symptoms that come during and after exercising are short lived and with no lasting damage!
As long as I can cope with these symptoms I’ll be ok, thats what I’m trying to do, find a way of coping so I can continue to do something tht I love so very much!

So here are my words for today, tomorrow and as long as I have MS (obviously this is for life or until they find a cure!)…
Know this, I will always stand up to it! I will never give in because like Fight Klub, I’m either all in or I’m all out! There’s only one way to be, I will never stop fighting

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