Derek documents an early morning MRI at Duke to monitor his MS after a recent relapse. The scan shows no change, and he's now on a daily 0.5 mg medication. He shares blood work results and thanks those praying for him.
Headed to Duke this early morning. It's already 7:10. I'm almost in Sanford. I think my appointment's right at 9:15, so I'm not sure what the traffic is like in Durham or at Duke at this time in the morning because I don't live here. So I'm giving myself a little extra time to make sure I make it on time, if not early. And if I am early, yo, check in and hopefully push everything today forward. I have an MRI this morning, and to prevent me from driving back and forth often, I get an MRI earlier in the morning, and then as the results come in, schedule— I schedule a checkup with my doctor in the afternoon. That way the results are in and we can talk about that and do a checkup at the same time. So The famous killing two birds with one stone. The MRI is every 6 months now because of the new medication. They want to see how it's working because it's not quite as aggressive as what I was on before because of the virus. I had to switch to the pill once a day, 0.5 milligrams, so And, you know, after the relapse a few weeks ago that lasted 4 weeks exactly, exactly 1 month. Hopefully it was a relapse and not any kind of damage. So the MRI will show that if it's active, if things are moving or progressing, we can see that with the MRI and then we can talk about it. Not really sure what we can do about it if it is moving or if it is progressing or if it is active and alive. So you'll see what they do is they will do an MRI without contrast and with contrast, and hopefully with contrast will light up anything that is active or progressive for, you know, whatever reason. How we can attack it, I'm not really sure. I'm not a doctor on that one, so. In 5 years, it's always been, it's been kind of, it's been stable. It's been the same spots every time where it's been, you know, obviously MS, but it hasn't progressed from then, so hopefully that is what happens today. But again, with the relapse, relapse lasted 4 weeks. Hopefully it was just a relapse and not anything more, but we'll find out and see. I don't wanna lose it, but I'm not getting through this.
Hey, should I pray? Should I pray to myself?
To a God, to a Savior who could Unbreak the broken, always said these spoken words Find hope in the hopeless, hold me out of the train wreck Unburden the ashes, always said the reactions are not ready to die, not yet Hold me out of the train wreck Pull me out, pull me out, pull me out.
Pull me out, pull me out. Underneath our bad blood, we've still got a sunstone home. Still a home, still a home. Yeah, it's not too late to build it back. 'Cause a one in a million chance is still a chance.
All right, glad that's done. Um, that was an hour long versus 45 minutes that I'm used to, but they added the neck onto the brain, so it took a little longer than usual, but, uh Made it through IV contrast, so we're gonna grab some lunch and wait on the next appointment, but we need to find some good news. I'm gonna leave it in the chair. Hopefully somebody will use it and see it.
I'm not ready to die, not yet. Pull me out, the train wreck.
Pull me out, pull me out, pull me out, pull me out, pull me out, pull me out.
You can say what you like, 'cause see, I would have died for you. I'm down on my knees and I need you to be my God, be my help, be a It's all done.
No change in MRI, so that's good news. Got poked 3 times, gave some blood work at the end, and Mariah looked good. So praise God, we're gonna push on from here. I appreciate all the prayers and all you guys thinking about me. See you later.
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