It has been a full year since I had my first incident with MS. It took 9 months since that incident to be diagnosed and a full year before I started taking medication to prevent the occurrence of experiencing MS episodes.
On Monday, I came home to get my voting card before going on a walk with my friend. When I arrived, I saw that I had a parcel waiting for me. The contents of this parcel were from a pharmaceutical company in Surrey, Bayshore, that will be sending me my MS medication.
Although I knew that this parcel would be arriving (it was late actually), seeing it sitting on the counter hit me like a ton of bricks. This meant that I needed to actually stop drinking. This meant that there was no more time left. This meant that my life as I have known it was over.
I went on my walk with tears running down my face. I had a difficult time explaining to my friend how I was feeling. I considered spending the rest of the day drinking and holding on to my old life as tight as I could. I thought about calling in sick for work the next day so I could drown in a pool of self sorrow.
That was two days ago. I’m in better spirits now than I was then. I did spend most of my evening drinking and pondering life as it once was. But I did come into work the next day. I see my MS doctor in person next week and I will ask her about drinking. For anyone who is interested, the drug that I started is called Tecfidera. So far, no side effects.
My MSsy Life 