symptoms – Page 9 – Living life the MegaSpecial way!

Tomorrow I am booked in for ‘Body Balance’ a new (to me) exercise class where the only person I know is the instructor who just happens to also be my pilates guru ‘Kate’

Kate is very keen for me to go to this class which is lovely & also thinks I will love it as it’s challenging! I do love a challenge!

She’s promised she’ll look after me but I still can’t help but be nervous! Like really nervous! I can feel my heart pounding in my chest just thinking about it!

Ooooo! My MegaSpecial alter ego thinks she’s going to win by bringing an anxiety attack on!

Ha! Think again MS! I got this! I control u not u me! U came along for this ride! U didn’t ask me for permission to share my life so deal with it!

I’m doing it! Kate will be there! I’ll be ok!
I got this! This girl can! This girl will! THIS GIRL DOES!

#toeselfie

Something very different & a bit of fun!

With the warmer weather here & hoping for it to stay the duration I donned on my new rainbow flip-flops happy in the knowledge that regular visits to a Chiropodist means my feet & nails are lush.

Toe nails painted, flip-flops on sunshine was all I needed to take a silly photo, play with it on my laptop & create a striking image and tag it on social media!

Now I wanna see every ones nicely painted #toeselfie!

I’m guessing there’ll be a clever person searching the web for images of manky toes/feet & that’s fine if u don’t mind people thinking they’re your feet!

Have fun, paint ur toe nails, gone wild with the colour, live & express yourself!

Looking forward to seeing the pics, here’s 3 so far… (pic on left is mine, top right my MegaSpecial Sistaaah Sare & her Dawg Sidney, bottom right my SistaBlista Skemily)

A weekend to remember!

So last week I was like…

Then last Friday, thanks to being able to return to exercise after having my back procedure-surgery-thingymebob I was all like “let’s…

And I over came another obstacle when my MS anxiety kicked in due to ‘Change’

I knew that my normal pilates instructor wouldn’t be teaching on Friday, a different lady was filling in for Kate!

I’m so glad Kate told me about this!
I had a choice, face up to my anxiety of change or let my MS win and ruin what kept me so positive through the physical pain of the week before….

I did it! I attended pilates and I took my normal space, at the front of the class next to the instructor!

I’m so glad I didn’t let my MS win! The instructor ‘Hannah’ was lovely! It was a different kind of pilates, different is good! Change IS good!

After the class Hannah asked me to hang back and wait for her.
She had been asked by my wonderful pilates instructor/guru to walk with me down the stairs. How lovely!

Due to the combination of my MS tremors after exercise & then the heat from outside of the air conditioned dance hall, I get quite weak so Kate always walks with me to my car. She had asked Hannah to do the same & she did. So kind!

I chatted with Hannah & a friend of hers for quite a while. They wanted to know all about me, my MS & my journey. It was great to share my story with them both, I think I did a good job of raising MS awareness!

That was Friday, a brilliant day that really lifted my spirits!

I had know idea what was planned for the rest of the weekend & neither did my partner.
Neither of us knew that the next day was going to be possibly one of the most exciting days of our lives, well mine for definite!…..