Back in the Saddle

I’ve been missing in action for some time. It’s just one of those things I s’pose – this blog’s life cycle. So, what’s been going on for the past year and a half? well…honestly not a whole lot because… Covid, although 2020 actually started off really well. My birthday is in January and I threw a birthday party in February, one week before flying home for carnival. That was a fantastic time and I remember while there for a week after carnival activities, reading about this virus that was first detected in China and had started spreading etc. At the time, it wasn’t completely startling but by the time I’d touched down in Atlanta, everywhere started shutting down and the year morphed into a completely surreal time. It was astonishingly weird year, and it was a year of a couple “firsts” for me. First time I ever spent Christmas by myself, first time since I started going out on Old Year’s night, that I was sound asleep at the stroke of midnight on December 31st (I didn’t see the need to stay up to ring in anything or cheers to myself). The original plan was to go to Charlotte by G2 and family but as the time drew closer, I realised that it just wasn’t feasible, so I decided that I’d stay put. I wasn’t happy and certainly wasn’t looking forward to the season, but it came, it went, and truth be told in the grand scheme of things, I guess it could have been much worse.

Early in 2020 I was of the mindset that I won’t go get the vaccine first; I’d let other people go first, see how things pan out and then I’d line up. By then end of 2020, I couldn’t wait to get in line because while I like my “me” time and have no problem limin with me, I was sick and tired of me and couldn’t wait to start seeing people again. My “release date” (2 weeks after dose II) was April 24th 2021 and we organised a small lime in Eclipse soon after that. It was so very good to see each other after a whole year – u have to understand, we limed regularly pre-Covid. Not limin or seeing each other for a month was unheard of, far less an entire year! We I thought that it was the beginning of going back to normal, ugh it wasn’t. At the time I don’t think that I’d realised yet that Covid is not going anywhere. These days, I firmly believe that everyone is going to get it; it’s just a matter of when and how each person will be affected. I would like to delay my getting it for as long as possible – in fact I don’t want to contract it at all – so I wear masks everywhere and try to be as diligent as possible regardless of where I am or who I’m with.

As far as the ms is concerned. Things are still stable although my opinion is that my disability has worsened lil bit. It’s hard for me to explain but I’m still able to do everything that I’m used to, it’s just that I sometimes feel like things are a little worse. For the majority of 2020, I wasn’t active; at least not as active as I used to be and I couldn’t go to therapy – that probably took some kind of toll on my body. Interestingly enough though, I’ve run into a couple people who haven’t seen me in a while, and they’ve remarked that I’m moving well. I don’t know but it’s just one of those feelings. The good news is though, that I was sent for an MRI in July 2021 and there was no evidence of disease activity so that’s a win that I’ll take and move right on along.

Anyways, keeping this a short, general recap of 2020/2021. I’ll be back…certainly have more to talk about and to share.

Hol’ it down. Take care and be safe out there,
Stax