Flashback: It’s alive…

Originally posted July 14, 2013

Y’know that feeling, when you’ve been watching a movie or something and sitting on your foot and it goes to sleep, and then you stand on it, and you have this painful pins and needles thing? Yeah?

Times by a zillion. That’s what my foot has been feeling like. It’s so very awesome.

My right foot has been permanently numb since the second brain break in July last year – so basically a full year. And in the last week or so, it’s started to wake up.

It was an initial ‘oh hello, I’m still here’ the first time, just a few seconds.  Then about 5 days later it happened again, this time for a few minutes, then again a few days after that, for a few minutes. Then 20 solid minutes of double over in pain holding my foot make it stop oh no don’t stop it’s good kind of excruciating sensation from this previously sensationless limb.

B”H this means I’ll get my foot back, which aside from ending my issue with walking, and perhaps a little less of the falling over too, means that I won’t have to give up driving, or learn how to drive an automatic with my left foot.

Generally I’ve been doing a bit better. Breaks between migraines seem to be getting longer, fatigue seems more manageable. I still have migraines, and they are still nasty, but better managed and I’m taking less drugs. I still have fatigue, but I’m taking less and shorter naps, doing more exercise and generally being more in the world.

The goldfish brain? My Dory moments? Worse. Go figure. This happened last time I started to get better too – concentration got worse as the migraines receded. But I have the energy and the general positivity to… over here Kath, no, no… you know, ok, shut twitter and finish the sentence. Ooh croissant… 🙂