Maybe it is about time..

I figured it might be time to start blogging about my MS. I already blog about the insane juggle it is to run a music venue, be a mom and run my own business at here
But sometimes there is so much more to say about the reality of juggling MS and all of this. I was diagnosed almost a year ago exactly, after having a hypertensive stroke and having had several MRI's.
It took me about a year to get my blood pressure under control but I still felt like shit. After a series of tests, MS was determined to be the culprit.
You have to understand that prior to my stroke I was a very healthy, vegetarian, yoga teacher, mom of two and successful business owner.
I have very mixed feelings about western medicine. I find it really hard to believe that I could have a stroke, severe hypertension and MS at 37 years old and have them not be related in some way, but western wisdom treats them all as separate events and treats each independent of the other ones.
Something tells me there is something systemically wrong and I will one day put it all together. In the meantime however, I exist and live only with the help big pharma.
Through this process I have been very very ill, and the one thing I can say for western medicine, is that there are moments, like when your blood pressure is 210/120, that I am happy for the drugs that can physiologically save me from more strokes.
Here I am a year after diagnosis, I have learned a lot and have been forever changed. I am grateful to still be alive, and I try to enjoy everyday.
MS has been hard to swallow, and I cant believe how much it has caused me to slow down, but, it has also opened me and for that I am grateful!