Derek Cole shares a health update nine years into living with MS. A medication change improved his speech noticeably, and he's managing symptoms through diet changes, homemade protein shakes, and exercise. He's planning to revive his vlog and work on a new commercial project with Coach Bailey at Scotland High School.
Of course, holiday weekends are always a good time for me anyway to kind of reflect on what's happened. As far as me personally, my speech has gotten better. When I changed medications earlier this year, Honestly, why I stopped making videos, I stopped the vlog within the last couple of years, it's really because I was having trouble with my MS. I mean, my MS was causing me a serious speech problem. It has gotten better. It's still obviously a You know, something there. But when I would make a video online and post it, you know, people would say, is he drunk? What kind of medication is he on? I mean, it was, it was, it was some bad stuff. But so far this year, I've been feeling better, feeling better, and feel like I'm speaking better. I'm wearing my glasses today because I've been having a little dizziness, eye problem. Again, part of MS, multiple sclerosis. It doesn't happen a whole lot, but it seems to help when I wear glasses and take my contacts out. Usually when you see me in glasses, that is why I'm having that problem. But feeling blessed, feeling really, really blessed. I mean, going into year 9 of multiple sclerosis, you know, it's, it's not been easy. It's not been easy, but you guys have supported me and been there for me, and, and for that, thank you. But really, the switch in medication, I kind of switched some things up and going back to kind of homemade protein shakes, gotten off of dairy completely, even though last night at someone's birthday party, they had an ice cream cake, and about halfway through the cake, I realized Ah, it's ice cream. I can't have ice cream. So, um, other than that, I'm pretty much, um, off dairy altogether. Um, once I found out it was an inflammatory, uh, thing and it was an MS problem. And, uh, but anyway, so it should die up a little bit. Went to making homemade shakes again. Switch medications, working out, not as much as I should, but I'm getting, getting back into it. But anyway, this holiday, holiday weekend, I just want to say thank you, give you a little update on, on me and what's going on. But I've been thinking about bringing the vlog back. Um, since I can speak clearly in the pandemic and, you know, everything is opening back up. And, um, so I don't know yet. We're, we're gonna see. Um, I know one thing for sure, I've been, I've been talked to multiple times now. Uh, so in football season starts back up, uh, we're gonna have to do some brand new, uh, commercials with Coach Bailey at the high school, Scotland High School. Um, we've been asked, um, I said yes we are, so now we gotta deliver and, and come up with some, uh, come up with some ideas, uh But anyway, hope you're enjoying the holiday weekend. Uh, if you see this after the holiday weekend, no problem. Hope you had a good time. Uh, it's been a beautiful day today. I mean, look back here, got sunshine. It's not too hot, it's not too muggy, feels good. But, um, I, I appreciate you guys, and, um, we'll just keep pushing.
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