This is not news for most of the avid readers of KTOWN, but for those friends and family we have not talked to in the last few days we thought we post the details of my latest neurologist appointment.
A few weeks ago I began having some trouble with the vision in my left eye so I had a Visual Evoked Response (VER) test and yet another MRI. Wednesday I went to see my neurologist to get the results. The VER came back showing slight optic neuritis. That just means my optic nerve is inflamed and having problems sending signals to my brain. Also, my MRI showed two new lesions on my brain. All of that combined with the lesion from January on my spinal cord adds us to an official diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis. I am going to have to start taking a shot daily to hopefully slow down the progression of the disease. As you all know I hate needles so I am not too excited about this idea. My doctor assured me the pill form of this drug is only about 2 years from hitting the market. I am not sure if that is true or he just got panicked by the look on my face when he said shot and was just trying to make me feel better.
The obvious question from here is how are we doing? Honestly, we are doing o.k. I was not surprised by the optic nerve thing, my left eye is still not quite right, but the two new brain spots kind of shook me. Right now we are concentrating on believing God is good and God is sovereign and He has had this under control from the beginning of time.
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, 3 for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. 4 And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
I am believing that this is all for God’s glory and my good and one day I will look back and thank God for MS and how he has revealed himself through it. I am not quite to the thankful stage yet, more scared, but I have hope to be there one day.