MS rears its ugly head again

Back in 2014 when I was dealing with SIBO and my feet started going numb we were a bit worried about MS and my doctor sent me off to a neurologist to see what was going on.   At that time it turned out I had neuropathy probably caused by the antibiotics.   In 2015 we found I had myelin antibodies from the autoimmune panel from Cyrex and so I had to go in for another neurological check and an MRI.  That MRI came back clean in the spring of 2015 and so I sort of figured I was out of the woods on this one.

Fast forward to last fall.  I started having frequent burning sensations in the front of my left leg and assumed it was due to the bad discs in my neck which were found in the MRI.  I went to a chiro and did my usual routine on the discs but the burning pain didn’t really go away and slowly got more frequent to where it was a daily occurrence.  My new naturopath looked at my MRI and thought I had not only bad discs but also a thickening of the ligament that runs along the spinal cord.  So, back to the neurologist for me with hopes that this was a structural issue that could be handled by surgery.

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Elkless in Oregon

This year I didn’t really  get any good draws so have decided to do a muzzleloader mule deer buck hunt in late September and to try for a cow elk in the early season in Oregon to see if I could fill the freezer in August and take the pressure off of getting a buck.  With that in mind I headed down to John Day in smoke filled skies with temps in the mid-90s on the last day of July to go elk hunting on the opener with Broken Horn Outfitters.   After a six hour drive I arrived in John Day, got unpacked at the hotel and talked to the guides to set up a meeting time for early the next morning.  I roamed around town a bit and saw a bunch of quail and a few deer, my hopes were up.

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