Intermission

In today's episode of Louise's Lovely Little Lesions: Louise attempts to shave her thoroughly overgrown leg forest in the shower whilst singing James Morrison songs loudly and slightly out of tune, loses her balance, cuts her leg, bruises her knee and pulls her back muscles in an attempt not to injure herself by slipping.

The Traditional First Post

Ah, a new blog! I promise to post at least three times before I forget all about it and go back to posting everything on Facebook! I mean erm.. I'm aiming to post once a week on a Monday evening with all the updates and wonderful ideas and things that I've found useful or interesting.

I'm Louise, I'm 31, I live in a beautiful little town in South Wales with my boyfriend Lex, 3 chickens (Bokbok, Nimona and Merida) and a gecko called Pinky.

I wanted a blog because I am going through the initial diagnosis and treatment for Multiple Sclerosis and whilst there is a tonne of information online about it, I wanted somewhere to track my own experiences, treatment and bits of research or useful things as I go along. It's a blog for me but I'm happy for you guys to tag along if you find it useful, insightful, or if you have nothing better to read while you're on the loo.

So, the first thing I'm going to share is https://www.mstrust.org.uk/ - This website has been an absolute wealth of information, support and useful links that I can send to friends and family so I don't have to try and explain what Multiple Sclerosis is over and over again. It also has a lot of blog entries that I'm too scared to read yet because I am in a blissful bubble of "Once this relapse is over I can go back to living my normal life like nothing has ever gone wrong" and I'm worried that those blogs will be "My life is so awesome despite this crippling disability, aren't I wonderful?" and honestly, I just can't take the inspo right now. I prefer the Cripple Punk/ CPunk movement started on Tumblr which postulates that cripples can be miserable, uninspiring and generally sick of your shit just as well as the able-bodied. I'm not a pessimist, I have a wonderfully happy and realistic outlook on life, I just don't want the marathon-running, do-gooding, miracle-achieving MS patients to be inspirational at me when I'm a cake-eating, do-okaying, happy-to-just-get-on-with-normal-things MS patient. Maybe I'll get round to the blogs at some point but I'm just not quite there yet.