Relapse?

The last week has not been good.  Was it a relapse just as part of the progress of this disease, or could it have been something I had or hadn’t done.  I have been trying to reduce the painkillers in the slowest and smallest amounts possible. But after  week of feeling progressively worse and also weaker and more disabled I was ready to up the dose again.   But by Friday I detected a lighter feel and then, when I thought about it, I wondered if it could be the hyperbaric treatment.

As we were away for the weekend I missed my treatment by two days, therefore I  had 6 days without the pure 100% healing oxygen.  I began to feel better 24 hours after the first dose, and after the second, all was well again.   And here I am, back in the tank again like Norman No Mates feeling well enough to write and share where I have got to.  But I could just be going into remission, as the medical profession may say and the oxygen has nothing to do with it.  Well, let’s see.

My next post will see a return to the long period of diagnosis as a couple of months after the Nerve Conduction tests, I returned to UCLH for MRIs and a lumbar puncture.  I want to record these events as both may expose an experience had or about to be had by others, in a different light.

So I’m now decompressing, and about to go home for supper after a gorgeous afternoon on the beach.  The best beach in the world.