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I'll start this out by saying that I am a little down at the moment. My mom has been pretty sick for the last couple of years and none of her doctors have been able to figure any of it out. Just before this last Christmas they came to the decision that she had problems with her thyroid and that it was jacking her up. So enter the thyroid meds that seemed to work for a brief time but have since quit helping her. During a call 2 weeks ago my mom tells me that she's going for 2 MRI's. Talking to her today she asks if I have talked to my dad this week. I immediately didn't have a very good feeling about the conversation. After I said no that I hadn't talked to him she says, "well we got my results back and it's not very good it seems..." I'm like ok....so....? Apparently the MRIs show lesions on my mom's brain and the doctors think she has MS (multiple sclerosis). She goes this week for spinal taps to verify, but the doctors are pretty sure from the brain lesions that it is what it is, MS.
Needless to say I am a little freaked by this whole thing. I love my mom alot and really hate to see her suffering with illness. Don't know quite what I can do at this point.I have a lot of research to get to it seems to figure out just what can be done.
I just needed to get this out. I haven't met alot of different peeps here in DC since I moved here and SG is just about the only "private" thing I have left in my life. Every other social site and blog is followed by friends and family from back home. bleh.

On another note, I am going before sunrise tomorrow to shoot the Cherry Blossom Festival before the masses of people show up and ruin the scenery. Wish me luck. I just need someone/something to take my mind off everything...