No Spring for You Part 2

A multiple sclerosis weather report update

I have never before posted two blogs in one week.  I felt it necessary this week however because Mother Nature seemed to take offense to my last post and shoved a whopping piece of humble pie my way.  As a fan of pie I will take it, even if I prefer chocolate cream.

Like my friend Harvey Leonard, I may have misspoken.  When I was posting my No Spring for You blog on Friday morning, 5/2, it was dark, chilly and windy outside, with rain coming down in torrents.   And it had been like that for days.

Within two hours of the blog being published out came the sun and dried up all the rain and the itsy, bitsy spider……

Sorry, I got carried away.  The point is, the weather turned gorgeous, perfectly spring like. And it lasted through the next day and into this morning.   But now it is dark again and I am still suspicious.  Does spring count as spring when it only lasts approximately 60 hours?

It’s kind of like when we MS’ers try to figure out if we are having an actual exacerbation or just a flare.  The state of our health goes from mildly crappy (good day,) to generally crappy (bad day,) and on to horrendously crappy (an MS flare.)   How many days we exist in the horrendously crappy state determines if we are in an exacerbation or just living with the normal MS crappy.

(Ok, this is a description of an MS exacerbation in the extreme extreme- please discuss with your doctor actual details.)

So here is the point of this particular blog update.  Perhaps I should have called the 5/2 blog A Little Spring for You, Maybe.

Regardless, when the weather turned gorgeous, I and several people I know opened windows only to be struck the next day with major unpleasantness in the form of super duper allergies.

And, I was forced to kill two flying ants and one spider, and not an itsy bitsy one.  Spring turns me into a serial killer.

So even if spring has sprung or not, I still reserve the right to grumble about it!!