So I focused on the most needed rooms, the two bedrooms and the bathroom, essentially half the house. I may not be able to do the whole house at once anymore. I decided, like with other things MS related, I should just get over myself and accept my limitations. Recently I couldn’t take it anymore and so I doubled up on caffeine and on my anti-viral meds that somehow help with the fatigue even though I have no idea how or why, and attacked my home. They multiply like, well roaches and aren’t so cute. Cute, little friendly specs of dust that you may occasionally spot in the corner of a room.
But the side effects of the legal speed weren’t great and when my insurance changed, so did the affordability of the legal speed. I developed some great cleaning/dance moves. I managed this by popping one of those precious pills, blasting some good rock music and dancing around my house with a mop in one hand and a sponge in the other. My other issue in my clean compulsiveness is that I have to do my whole small house at once, so the dirty part won’t re-infect the clean part.
Then I received my diagnosis and along with it, a prescription for legal speed. They did a great job, but I just couldn’t have them back. I told them I was just getting something from my car and drove off, feeling like a fugitive, coming back only when I was sure they were almost done so that I could pay them. And it was beyond weird to sit on my butt while women I barely knew cleaned my own home. They wouldn’t let me help them and wherever I moved to get out of their way, I wound up more in their way. As it was their first time at my house, their boss insisted I stay while they cleaned so that I could make sure they were doing a good job and that they were cleaning the way I liked. The two women were from Brazil and their lovely accents reminded me of my Portuguese relatives. I even tried hiring people to clean for me. I became frustrated at the mess my house became and did my best to wash and mop when I wasn’t working or sleeping. Likely it was because I was working 40 hours and was so freaking tired all the freaking time. A sparkling, germ-free home and lifestyle are just who I am and what I have always maintained.īut in the years before my diagnosis, cleaning became harder to keep up with and I wasn’t sure why. This is particularly frustrating as I have always been a neat freak and a slight germaphobe, even before the word existed. In addition to the aches, the pains, the fatigue, the uncontrollable bladder, the cognitive difficulties, the ear noises, and always being late, MS has also given me a messy house.
So I don’t expect they will accept my latest symptom as MS related either. Yet, the web, the books, and the docs all say that these are not actual MS symptoms. My sister Laurie has these same symptoms and they started for both of us after we each received our diagnosis. How do they know? My personal, favorite examples are weird ear noises and always arriving 15 minutes late to wherever I am going. I get really frustrated however when neurologists tell me what I am describing is not MS. Sometimes it becomes convenient to blame MS for everything-works for me anyway. It becomes convenient to blame MS for lots of things. MS’er’s are so used to this, that it sometimes becomes tricky to tell what is a new MS symptom and what is just life. Those of us living with multiple sclerosis understand that our symptoms will change over time, go away, come back with a vengeance, and too frighteningly often, get worse. I hope you find my cleaning dilemma amusing dear friends!Īnd Happy Easter, Happy Passover (no bunnies but lambs,) and Happy Spring! What that means is no new blog for you! Hahaha!īut I thought this post from two years ago is perfect as it talks about bunnies which people often associate with Easter, (silly bunny, Easter is for Jesus,) and I am trying to psych myself up to tackle this cleaning project next week. So this week’s blog post happens to coincide with Holy Week which means that it also coincides with religious obligations, family obligations, friend obligations, MS obligations, life obligations and resting obligations.
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