My MS journey!

So here we find ourselves in December, summer has gone, school has started, spooky times have been had and some amazing fireworks have been lit and of course Santa has been!! I have finished my second year of Cladribine and I have felt more energised and balanced than I have felt in a long time. I guess that's when you know you've finally healed and accepted that life is just life and MS is a part of that, however one downside to the Cladribine is that I can't drink wine like I used to, actually that's probably a good thing right?! I now have a new found interest for proper ale, gotta love them porters! After having my Cladribine, I didn't feel as fatigued like I did before, in fact I stopped needing to nap and I love my naps. The last few months have been busy, I started uni and I'm really enjoying the course so I know as hard as it's going to be, I've made the right decision. My son has started secondary school which has been a huge jump as I've ha

Here we go again... Well where has summer gone, have we even had a summer? The last few months have bought so many smiles and successes, both for me and my munchkins. After submitting my last assignment in May and after my son finished his Sats it was all about crawling to the summer holidays. My daughter went up another stage in swimming, had a fantastic report, she amazes me with her wit and humour and talks for England, now I wonder where she gets that from?! For me, the last school term was such an emotional one as it meant my son would no longer be at Primary school and would be heading to secondary school in September. I think I spent the last two weeks of the summer term in tears, my little boy was not so little more and I realised that this summer maybe was the last of him being my little boy, secondary school was going to be the start of him growing up! He passed his Sats with flying colours which I knew he would do anyways and got a fantastic school report. His leaver's

So as quick as April arrived, May was even quicker! I am now an Aunty to two beautiful nieces, both arrived within a week or so of each other, I watched my son who is 11, pace up and down the hospital halls like a nervous, expecting daddy. Being so close to his aunty had him wanting to be there when his long awaited cousin arrived into the world. I watched the beginnings of him turning into a young man that day and I beamed with pride! It was a day full of emotions, like my mum coming out of the delivery suite after seeing her grand daughter being born and telling us she was here. Her face and reaction is something I'll never forget, her face was filled happiness, genuine happiness, something I hadn't seen in her in a long time. People always ask if you ever love another child like you do your own children? My answer is yes, my niece is gorgeous and I now I get to be Aunty Cheryl and give her sugar highs and hand her back lol!  I've decorated my little toilet all by

Spring time! Hello Spring, oh how I've missed you, the sun shining and warmth hitting my skin and giving me that much needed Vitamin D! I have no idea what happened to February or March, it was like a blur! Probably because I had so many plates to balance, work, munchkins who I must say, have a better social life than myself ha-ha, Uni and not forgetting my good old friend MS that likes to remind me that I need to slow down on occasion, duly noted, point taken...not! I really could do with a long sleep mind you. The last couple of months have their up and down moments, I've beamed with pride of how well my munchkins are doing in school, with swimming and school football matches but I've also come to the brink of wanting to chuck my course in because I couldn't get my head around subjects that I don't really know a lot about, I've flooded my kitchen, I forget I leave the tap on sometimes and my downstairs toilet, which I fixed but had to get

January Blues. Well hello February, where did you sneak up from? January has to be the longest month of the year, after Christmas and New Year, January seems to go on forever, well for those that did dry January it probably did but for me it's been about old emotions coming back to bite me in the ass! Having MS for me makes me want to sometimes just bury what I feel and pretty much just say right, come at me!! January has been not only a physical and mentally draining month but also emotionally draining too. The cold weather doesn't help, I ache, I constantly feel cold and just feel fatigued all the time. Exercise does help, especially Body Combat as it helps me blow off some steam which I definitely do need but it's taking more effort to get that get up and go feeling going. I know what keeps me going is my constant ability to feel positive, to feel and embrace the optimism, this year for me was about closing old chapters and writing new ones, I have spent the last

Well it's 2019 already, guess this is the time when people start making new years resolutions and reinventing themselves?! All the 'New Year, new me' stuff! Need to be fitter, need to be happier or healthier and must achieve this and that this year...Hands up to those that are in this category? Not me, I decided a few years ago, after my diagnosis and the end of my marriage that I wasn't going to plan, I was just going to do it! You can make plan A, B and C and I'll guarantee you wouldn't have planned for D! I have a couple of things that I know I need to do like pass my UNI course, be a bridesmaid for one of my best friends weddings, go sky diving as my relapse kinda put a halt on that plan last year but as for planning, nope just going to see where this year takes me. I did start the year off with a walk to my favourite place, something I didn't do a lot of last year, put my music in my ears and climbed and sat on one of the rocks at Black Rocks! Man