My Baby's Under the Weather

Skip's caught a cold or is reacting to the heavy layer of pollen we have laying over everything. I feel a sickness like this is adding insult to injury, where she's already so impacted by her MS.

Skip's congested, pretty noisy when she's sleeping, feels more under the weather than usual. She's been feeling very weak as well, with her hands less effective than normal. She's been a bit sleepy and a bit out of it, which I'm chalking up to her cold medicine (it's something new we hadn't tried before because the local drug store doesn't have much in the way of cold meds this time of year ... mostly sinus/allergy drugs). I walked into the living room after wrapping up work for the day and she was asleep in her wheelchair. It took quite a bit to rouse her (she's a fairly light sleeper, so typically a normal-voiced "Skip" would have awoken her). After calling out to her a number of times didn't work, I went over and touched her hands, that didn't work. Then, touching her face got her attention. When she did wake up, she was a bit fuzzy for a little bit. Fortunately, she returned to her normal, sparky self by dinner time.

I worry a bit at times like this. You tell yourself it's the cold medicine that's having this effect, which is logical. But, with all the horrible things that MS does to a person, what if some of what's happening is MS-related?

I look forward to discontinuing the cold pills as soon as she starts to feel on the mend.