I hope everybody on the board has been having a good Holiday Season.


Though I have to work this week, I had a very good Christmas, and I am quite thankful for the past year, even though it has been very challenging.


For me, the Christmas Season involves a LOT of traveling, and a fair amount of parties. At one of them, I got emotionally upset over some trifling matter, and, since then (three days ago), I have been having a minor relapse.


The usual (for me, at least)--it feels like my brain is inflamed and my spine hurts..


It probably didn't help that I had a few drinks and was not properly hydrated that night. (There have been other nights I've had a few drinks, but made sure to drink water constantly. On those nights, I had no ill effects.)


A good thing is that my "relapses" are becoming less and less bad; I still am able to remember things, even though my brain hurts to think too much.


I have have had two exceptionally good months (even so much that I had considered myself healed).


Why do I write, then? To vent maybe, but also to let the board know that, despite the above, I am still confident of ultimate healing or at the very least, long stretches of fairly good function where I have to manage PCS as a somewhat chronic condition.


I am also respecting my brain more and more, as I did not really feel that I was abusing it too too much, yet it is demanding to rest again…