My boyfriend lives in another town 50 miles from here, and he works constantly, trying to get his head above water since the economy monster hit him (his dad closed their store, and he's been working jobs that dont pay enough since then)

I had my steroids at the beginning of may (3 days IVSM, and 2weeks of tapered prednisone) The 'roids seemed to work for about two weeks, and then BOOM! the symptoms came back.

I really hope that doesnt mean that the steroids failed.

Today, I've been noticing weakness in my left hand. It kind of feels like it's sprained, and numb. I was eating dinner (finally! went to Carraba's and got some lasagna, chicken Parmesan and spaghetti...and some bread with oil and herb mix and some minestrone soup. Saved the minestrone for tomorrow's lunch) I noticed that my left hand felt weird when I was eating. I cut meat with my right hand and eat with my left...my hand felt strange, and I felt like I was having problems controlling the fork. I'm an ambidextrous eater, so I switched to the right. Fork felt weird there too, but not as much as with the left hand.

My hands feel slick. Anything that I pick up that's smooth feels like it's going to slide right out of my hand.

My left shoulder feels extremely stiff now. It hurts to raise my arm up above the shoulder. Shoulder keeps wanting to pop out of joint. (I'm double jointed in the shoulders...can usually painlessly pop them in and out of joint whenever I want to...just hurts too much to do now)

I'm really annoyed with the numb hand right now, because it seems like some of my dexterity is affected. I just bought $50 in new knitting needles from Knitpicks.com and I'm having such a problem knitting with that hand. Just got those needles today, and it's bugging me that I cant really use them. I did do a little knitting with some scrap to try one of them out, but it was really difficult to do.

I hope I didnt just waste $50 (and I hope this numbness resolves so I can knit and crochet again!!! That's my stress reliever)

My neck is hurting like it did when I hurt my neck last fall, so I'm wondering if this numbness is from that neck injury. I think I re-injured my neck, or maybe the MS is irritating that injury. (or the injury is irritating the MS?) Or it's just the MS trolls in my head being ***h**** screwing around with me.

My sister and her family finally left to go back to their house and I could finally relax. (when they come over, they literally take over the place and even tho she's family, I cant relax with them around...especially when I feel like crap like I do now)

My dad told me that my niece came to him, wondering where the control to the lifting recliner went. She wanted it back. Luckily he was actually happy that I stole the control, and told her that she didnt need it. (she wanted to sit and raise the chair up and down and up and down and up and down and up and down. I dont think we ever told her the chair on the glassed in deck does that...otherwise she'd have been out there too) So I didnt get kvetched at for stealing the control to the chair. Yay!