"Sometimes I think you are trying to use as much of your energy and movability available due to fears it'll disappear"

Boy, that sure hits home Deb.
It seems impossible to remain between the lines of doing too much, then paying for it later, and not doing enough, then loosing ground because of that...especially because those lines don't remain constant.

One day some activity proves to have been too much and the next day, that same activity was not enough, causing more stiffness, spasm and pain.

This morning follows a day of apparently doing too much, although I actually didn't do much (really I didn't), because the joints were too angry yesterday and I had the usual leg spasms, and a headache with neck stiffness.

The MS Sxxxx's are still going on this morning but the one saving grace is that the right wrist is a bit better. I can at least use it to hold the cane on that side, which takes some of the weight off of the left ankle, knee and hip.
On the minus side, overnight the second toe's joints have become inflamed, painful and swollen to the middle of the arch of the right foot. I can walk on the outside of that foot to avoid putting weight on it, but it still makes for a pretty unsteady & gibbled walk. Using the crutch on the left side is out of the question because the left wrist is too painful to even rest it on the hand thingy.

I've smeared Diclofenac on most of the inflamed joints and have taken two 400 mg doses of Ibuprofen since 2:00 AM, so hopefully those drugs will kick in soon. At this point though, I'm just trying to get back between those invisible lines.

There's certainly an abundance of whine here. Passing (on) the cheese...

With love, Erika