It has been three months since my CCSVI procedure so here is an update.
I had to go back on the Baclofen. It was a little disappointing that I could not go off the medication but it helps control the spasms in my legs which have not gone away. I was however able to go back on with a lower dosage of medication.
We just got back from a trip to visit our parents in Saskatchewan. My daughter and I were playing a game of chase in which I was the Big Bad Wolf. I started to run and I ran so fast I had trouble stopping. I use to be on the track team in Junior High, no one could beat me. I was so fast in the 100m that I held the junior girls record for many years, maybe I still have the record, I don't know. It felt so good to run and feel that speed again. You don't know how free it felt to run and feel like a young girl again that no one could catch. Life is good.
I also had a moment of realization that your life does effect others. We went to a 50th Anniversary party and I saw so many people that I had not seen for so very long. People who remembered me from Junior High, my first year as a teacher, a time when I was well and MS was not a big part of me. Of course, being from a small town everyone knows everything about everyone. People told me that they have thought of me and always wonder how I am doing, if I am well, if I can work. I had the thrill of telling people about CCSVI and how it has turned back the clock for me. It was so nice to know that people remember that girl I once was but that they can still see her inside of me and that she has not faded away or been lost to MS.
CCSVI has brought back my energy and erased my pain letting me be who I am. Life is good.
