bath

So I was feeling all achy and felt like taking a nice hot bath.  Bad Idea.  I miss those days when you could soak in a bath and not come out feeling like all your energy went down the drain with the water.  It's funny the little things that seemed so harmless in the past and now it is not a good thing for me.
Did you know that at one time they used to do hot baths as a diagnostic test for MS.  If you had any symptoms after the heat then it would be one step closer to the diagnosis.  Exposure to heat makes you feel "sick" until you cool down.  It makes my legs and my arms feel "heavy".  It's hard to get out of the bath tub and I need to grab onto things in order to get up.  It is so hard to cool down as well.
I used to think that when I got "older" I would wind up living in Florida.  Now I know that if I did, I would only be able to leave the house once the temperature outside cooled down.  The heat is disastrous for a lot of people with MS.  At least it gets me out of yard work (the silver lining has been found...woo hoo).
The good news is that my muscles weren't quite as achy.  The bad news was I was pretty wiped out, but that's okay as my day has come to a conclusion.
"There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still."....Inspirational Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt.