March is driving me mad

No March madness excitement for me but March sure is driving me mad. I'm so glad March is almost over. I'm sick of this temperamental weather. Literally I am just sick from the constant weather changes. It gives me migraines and turns out my MS doesn't like it much either. The beginning of March I was fighting against the snow and ice but lately I have been fighting against the heat. 

I have never handled heat well. Getting heat stroke on many family trips was evidence of that. It doesn't matter how much I drink, I don't sweat. Even when I ran a half marathon I didn't break a sweat. On the rare occasions where I do sweat it doesn't cool my body off. So I gave up my childhood dream of being a paleontologist and I try to drink more. Turns out when you have nerve damage you become even more sensitive to the heat. The warm days lately have been making my head foggy and my hands numb. Anything above 78 degrees and I start to melt. 

Most people with MS struggle with the heat but I'm lucky and my MS affects me in cold as well. My numb feet can't detect ice so I just walk like a penguin everywhere. And if the temperature drops less then 34 ish it makes my spasticity much worse. Do you remember the old GI Joe miniatures? The ones with the rubber bands as legs muscle? If you stretched their legs too far the rubber band would snap and then they became a wounded solider with one less leg. Well that's about how I feel when I walk in the cold. I mean my leg doesn't actually snap off but it feels like it is going to.

So I'm ready for Wisconsin weather to pick a season or just stay at 70 all the time. So glad March is almost over. And another reason I'm excited for April is then it is only a few days til we leave for China!

Exciting News

So apparently I should have phrased that I have exciting news better. No, I'm not pregnant. And I guess this news may not be as exciting for you as it is for me. Anyways, my husband and I are going to China for my spring break! We will be spending a week in Beijing. We might being staying a little longer but we aren't sure yet. I found a great deal on Groupon so we decided to go. For less than the price of round trip air, we have a tour package that includes all transportation including flights, almost all meals and all admission fees. We weren't really planning on going to China but we both wanted to go there. It just wasn't on the top of the travel list because of the cost. But the great price bumped it up a bit. 

We will be visiting the Great Wall, a jade factory, the Olympic city, the Forbidden city, Tiananmen Square, the Summer Palace, a silk factory, the Capital Museum, and the Temple of Heaven. We will also being going on a rickshaw tour of the markets and for tai chi lesson in a park. Special food treats include a Peking duck dinner, dinner at a local families' house and visits to a tea house. We will being visiting some other stuff on our own as well but not totally sure what yet.

I have been trying to build my endurance lately so I won't need any assistance on the trip. We got a walker since I still don't have a wheelchair yet and the wheelchair won't work well with the steps. China isn't very handicap accessible or gluten-free friendly from what I have read. Unfortunately, there are not many tips I have found about how to adjust for this. Do you have any tips? I hope to bring back lots of information for others like me who maybe considering a trip to China.