No, its not some sort of Harry Potter thing. When I first was diagnosed with ms I referred to me seizures as spells. I am not sure why I went back to calling them seizures. Spells was such a cooler word, sounded very Victorian to me. Maybe something I would take Mercury to cure, possibly a blood letting would help. So I want to go back to that word, especially since I thought of a new use of it today.

On my run this morning, I had several really small spells. It was sort of going back to an old regularity in a way, the pattern where I would have one at the start and then several more around 6 miles into it and afterwards. The only difference is that these were really slight. I felt them, but they barely seemed to affect me, at least my movement anyway. In fact I was able to just run through them with no problems. Also, it wasn’t like before where it was difficult to do, I just kept on running. Anyway, the phrase I thought of (you might have guessed if you read the title of this entry) is “shadow spells”. I got a creepy kick out of it this morning.

On another note, this was my third eight mile day in a row. I was really feeling it towards the end. Pooped. But it was a beautiful morning, nice and cool. For the first part of the run I even found myself running in the sun to warm up. Toward the end it (and myself) was getting to hot to do that and I found myself looking for shade.