Yesterday, I ran again in the morning after taking my rebif dose, I am up to a full dose now. I woke up feeling a little sore, both from all the gardening I did the day before and some lite flu-like symptoms. So I ate half of a Clif bar like I normally do before my morning runs and took a couple ibuprofen (which apparently you should only do if you have eaten a little, so I am sure the Clif bar helped in more ways than one.) I urned on Silversun Pikup on my Ipod and headed down the street. Over 52nd I have been getting that first seizure usually, but I glided through without anything coming on. The next time I thought about it, I had was going through Sherman Park and hitting mile two without any seizures. At mile four I decided I would do a full run of 8+ miles, I had been waiting to determine if my body could deal with the distance and my soreness, it could. At 5.5 miles I found hitting my usual threshold for the seizures reoccurring without having a single one yet, I headed on to reed college and the Canyon. I felt myself warming up, so I removed my rain jacket. The Canyon was gorgeous in the cool morning and I trotted along admiring all the vegetation, still no seizures. Before I knew it I was at the stairs to leave the Canyon, they always come up so quickly signaling the end of my run. When I was training for the Portland marathon I would run them, lately I walked them, today I again ran them but walked the last block and a half up the inclined street. At 39th I continued my run for the final mile. When I found myself at our gate, I had made it the entire way without any seizures, I even made it through my cool down.

I am not sure if it is the dilantin finally kicking in, the rebif doing its job r just the natural progression of my ms, but I will take it. It was great being seizure free yesterday. I still found myself paranoid in the few situations I had that I needed to talk to someone, but everything turned out great. This was the second run I had seizure free and I am seeing a definite lessening of their occurrences. Finally! Now I just hope it continues. I don’t need to be perfect, but the less the better.