I told my Mom this afternoon that I am closer to having had MS for 23 years then I am from having it for 22 years. My able-bodied self is such a distant memory but right now, I am faced with the changing of the seasons. That has progressively gotten worse, but I think THIS change of season he’s kind of proving to be a little too much… Let me ‘splain ya:
Last Tuesday night, it was too cold, so I had to turn the heat on. My nose was cold and I was hiccuping! I finally fell asleep when it got warmer and then Wednesday morning, I sat up in my bed, and was trying to orient myself to being awake. I was looking down at my phone to text my Mom that I just sat up. It takes me about 30 minutes to wake up.
I sent that text and I could feel my nose was starting to run so I put my phone down and reached over to grab a roll of toilet paper. That’s on the table to my left. I thought that I was a little bit slow and grabbing the toilet paper, but what I thought was snot hit my lip! I was totally grossed out and then I got some tissue. When I wiped my lip, it wasn’t snot, it was blood!!!
When I saw that, I started freaking out a little bit and started sopping it up. I didn’t want to blow my nose because I wasn’t sure if it was done bleeding and I didn’t want to irritate it!
I woke up Thursday morning to a lessened bloody nose and on Friday I didn’t bleed at all. But what concerns me now is the fact that it is warm today:
I’m keeping the air on all night and all day tomorrow because it’s going to be a hot one and in the back of my mind, I just wonder if I’m going to have to deal with more nose bleeds when I turn the heat on for real, for real.