Planning bigger projects and family trips has also become more of a challenge, especially when Katie and Jason toyed with taking the kids to Disney. "I thought to myself, I don't know if I could make it from the parking lot into the actual amusement park before I'm kind of spent. Then I considered actually walking around for a whole day at Epcot. I thought, Do I really want to spend the money for me? Why don't you guys go and I'll stay at home because I don't think I could do it. I don't think I could expend that amount of energy to do that.
While Katie's symptoms have certainly gotten better ever since her flare-up, they're not completely gone for good. She still experiences numbness in her legs and has difficulty walking long distances, which has gotten her thinking about being put on medication — despite the fact she is allergic to some ingredients in certain medicine — after all.
"Since the flare-up, it's been getting a little better. It's like I take two steps forward and one step back," she explained. "I've felt especially decent since Christmas. Every once in a while I have a bad day. I'm not 100 percent, but I've had mostly decent days lately."
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