Things are going pretty well for me. My pain level has been a little high because I’ve been going to Physical Therapy for the last few weeks. It is the “good” kind of pain, though, that comes with increasing my strength and stamina.

Yesterday was kind of “interesting.” At PT they took my Blood Pressure before they started my exercises. It was so high that they had me lie down with a BP monitor for the whole PT session.

My BP is almost always high when I am away from home. I monitored it after I got home yesterday. The only high reading was taken within an hour of getting home. After that, it was nice and low, and it is still low this morning. Go figure.

I think that one of the problems with my BP has to do with the fact that I am most comfortable and at ease at home, and definitely not very at ease anywhere else. Even though the folks at PT are medically trained, I don’t think they can conceive of the dwindling zone of comfort that people with MS experience. They underestimate how overwhelming the outside world can be for us. I’ve never had an anxiety attack in my life, but I certainly am more anxious when I am out and about.

Other than that, things in my life are going fine.