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Pre-assessment

I hope everyone's Easter was amazing and everyone enjoyed some much deserved rest and reflective time to one's self. Today should have been my first day back at work after the holidays off, but instead I spent it in a long consultation about my afore-mentioned referral for the drug Lemtrada. To recap: this is an infusion based drug, taken for five days then repeated again a year later for three days. I'd say I've been feeling pretty daunted by the prospect of it and going into that appointment today and talking it over cleared some stuff up for me so, I'm kinda going to go over that right now and just vocalise where my head's at right now to help process it all. The appointment started off with a mini flip-chart explanation of what MS is and how normal neurotransmitters work and signals to the brain are disrupted due to the attacking of myelin sheaths in people who suffer with this condition. Looking at the charts and all the scientific jargon made me feel a b