Sunday, June 27, 2010

Feeling Like I have been Beat!!!!!

Hello everyone here I am in week 7 of my College Comp II class and I am struggling to even get my rough draft outline turned in. I am so unsure of my writing skills I seem to rather not turn something in because it is horrible. My grammar and my use of punctation are bad, let alone the run-on sentences. And because of this I would rather almost fail then turn something in that is laughable. I am going to push myself today and tomorrow to try and get something typed up that is somewhat acceptable to turn in. I guess this is showing me as a bit of a perfectionist which has shown up after my diagnosis of my Multiple Sclerosis, unfortunately. I'm trying.

Saturday, June 19, 2010

STUCK IN A RUT!!!!!

Here it is week six and I am supposed to have something ready to turn into my fellow classmates and all I have is my rough draft of my introduction.
Multiple Sclerosis is a Chronic illness that changes one's life a lot. First a person has to get a diagnosis, which can take a little time or months, years, which the waiting itself is a horrible thing. I was lucky my Doctor did all the right testing so that the Neurologist was able to give me a certain diagnosis, with only one more scary test in the hospital, a spinal tap was my final step to my new life with MS.I was told that my immune system was eating the myelin sheath the coating on the nerves in my brain,like I knew what that meant. However the waiting can be so long that you end up with anxiety, and depression running you life along with the symptoms of MS. Symptoms can be vision changes to total loss of vision, numbness that feels like you foot is asleep but it never wakes up and can be quite painful,problems walking properly, another words you can eat a lot of carpet, and kiss a lot of walls trying to walk.The ugliness of MS can also cause bladder and bowl problems. Changes in personality which friends and family don't understand that we do not have control of these changes.Overall learning to live with MS is like starting your life over, learning how to adjust your life to compensate for your new friend MS. How does one learn to cope with all the changes MS brings into your life?
Hello everyone its unit 5 and I am having a rough time writing this paper. I seem to shut down when I don't feel as though I am doing a good job on something. Writing seems to be the hardest thing in the world for me. I think that if I could not focus so much on whether I am doing it right or not I would be better off, so if any one knows a way to do that please please please tell me!!!!!!

Thursday, June 10, 2010

week five for me is trying to start writing my paper

By the title of this blog you can see that I am very unsure of how to do this properly. I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in April 2003. This was after several months of symptoms making me crazy since I had no clue what was wrong with me. Trying to find out what was wrong was hard it was blood tests that all came back incunclusive. Then I was told that I needed an MRI which at the time I had no idea what it was. The doctor was astonished how my symptoms kept getting worse my entire left side was now numb with vision in my left eye getting worse, with now my right foot feeling like it weighed 20 pounds when I walked,these symptoms were starting to run my life. I went to work every morning but it was getting harder to do so. One day while I was at work dealing with my symptoms when out of no where my left eye went totally black. I could not see, this was the final straw I got up and left work called my doctor and my husband and told them both I was checking myself into the hospital to find out what the "hell" is wrong with me.
Well this is my first attempt at pre writing and I would appreciate any and all feed back and don't worry you won't hurt my feelings if you are critical.

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Pulling Articles from Kaplan's Library

I spent all day yesterday retrieving articles that might work for my paper. This is really hard to do because reading is something that is effected by my MS. I also think that this paper is so personal it makes it hard to use other peoples papers on MS. I am trying very hard to accomplish this paper. I forgot about seminar last night which is the second time and I really need seminar so now I will go listen to seminar and do option 2 again. I hope I can do this right.

Saturday, June 5, 2010

Learning as we go

Hi everyone, I just found out that I can post on the main page of my blog instead of putting everything under comments. So to those of you who have visited my site and saw no new posts, I am sorry they are all under comments. Please view comments when you visit because that is where I have been posting. SORRY!!