Wowsers...

Yeah. I'm a total flake for this whole blogging thing. My life gets in the way! Seriously, time is so precious, that I scarcely even check my email anymore. I'm so tired!!

Things are going great and horrible at the same time. Mostly, I'm going w/ good though. Life is what you make it. I had a real eye opener a little over a month ago.

I've been diagnosed with MS. It took a few years of poking, prodding, scanning, following fingers around without moving my head, vision tests...ad-nauseum. It seemed like it was never going to end, but eventually everything else was ruled out, and the little lesions on my brain were enough confirmation for my primary doctor and my team of neurologists to move forward with the diagnosis. I had kinda known for a little while that that was where things seemed to be headed. My doctor had given me sufficient information and reassurances that it was not going to be the end of the world...and it totally isn't. I feel a little relieved, actually! At least now we have a course of action that can be taken to treat the weird symptoms of this very strange disease. I've been taking anti-convulsants to help with the daily barrage of seizures I was having (not the kind that knock you to the floor, but more like a numbing feeling and electrical zapping sensation that made my vision go all crazy for a second), they also help with the nerve pain and with sleep at night (zappy feeling was keeping me up). So things are good! I'm under awesome care, and all of the strange medical bullshit is mostly explained now, so I don't have to live in...not exactly fear, but maybe a little bit of dread?? It's hard not knowing. That's all.

Anyway! I'm still alive, and I want to try to blog a little more about our adventures! We just made a trip out to Central Oregon and picked a ton of delicious morels! It was a great camping trip with our good friends. Can't ask for anything more! I had a great time. Watched everyone get completely shitfaced drunk. I sipped mine over the course of the night...I'm supposed to take it easy on substances, but I had a warm-fuzzy, which was enough to make me laugh at all their crazy drunk behavior! We all went barefoot around the camp fire, which was so awesome after a day of climbing very steep slopes to find the hemlock falls that the mushrooms love so much. I mean STEEP!!! My butt still hurts from that workout, but it's never been more firm and perky!! ROFL.

Anyway, guys....hope someone reads and is entertained. Much love!
- Kel