Hi all,
I hope you all had a good Christmas. I’m so exhausted I could cry, and I haven’t done anything. This is becoming a common theme with me - I can bearly stand for longer than an hour before I either need to lean on something or simply sit down. Everything seems to have gone rapidly down hill. I was only dx’ed in May 2013 with my first symptom in Jan 2013. I have Highly active RRMS and am on Tysabri - have been since April 2014, but things still seem to be going steadily down hill. I can’t get a job, yet apparently the PIP assessor thought I wasn’t entitled to that - as he put it ‘you look well’ (grrrrrrrr…), it’s being appealed at the moment. Even when I find temporary employment, I am usually off half off the days with appointments, and struggle for the rest of them due to the fatigue. So I come to the question - I hole a place at uni (it’s been suspended for the past 2 years due to my dx - was doing nursing, now not practical). So do I bother trying to transfer to a different course? Part of me thinks I should at least give a course a go, maybe just for me. But then part of me thinks what’s the point? If I’m this bad within the space of 2 years and I’m on the best treatment there is, 1) what chance have I got of completing it and 2) where’s it going to get me anyhow? Then there’s the question of what subject to choose - I’ve looked at a couple. The first being Psychology. This I think I’d find dry and maybe hard to stick to, but would potential give me a good career path (psychologist, and not a bad basis for becoming a counsellor for which I already have my level 2 certificate). Or take a subject which is more interesting to me like Population and Geography (basically Human Geography), but that doesn’t really lead to any career paths that I could follow unless I was well enough to take a further degree and go on and teach the subject (I have a Level 4 PTLLS course - Post 16 teaching qualification). Any thoughts (about what I should do re work + money in general, whether this is just a sliperly slope now, what I should do re uni, and depending on answer, about subject too)? Thank you x
Comet / Forest