The whole week had been filled with work, various work outs (not in love with it but consider this a necessary evil of life) like boot camp, yoga and a 3 mile walk at the park.  Sure I was feeling fine, a little sore but nothing to concern myself with until the weekend came.  Yes, the weekend I planned to hang out with a close friend, my kids and her daughter.  Lunch, a movie no biggie until I noticed my right leg was dragging. Okay I could pick it up and walk but I looked like I was a serious drunk in the process.  We ended up going home and I chalked up the incident to all of my exercise.  “I was sore, over exerted myself probably”  I thought.  Negative. By the time Monday arrived I had sharp pins and needles pain from my foot to my upper thigh and by Friday I lost complete mobility of my right leg and was considered paralyzed.  I also had this weird tightening feeling right below my breast area and my girl parts NUMB!  I mean NO SENSATION.  Not to mention I had not urinated in a 24 hour period and we are not even going to discuss how long I had a bowel movement.  I know TMI but it is necessary people.  Fortunately, with the help of a good friend (he shall remain nameless to protect the innocent) I made it to the emergency room.  They poked, prodded asked a thousand questions (okay it wasn’t a thousand but you know what I mean) and got absolutely NO RESULT.  I was admitted and given a steroid iv drip just in case it was MS but the doctors had no idea what was going on with me.  A MRI was done, blood was taken and still no diagnosis with the exception of ruling some “possibilities” out such as lupus, a spinal tumor or as they had stated before MS. A few days went by and they decided to do a spinal tap since my paralysis did not respond to the steroid drip.  Well being that at this point I had really bad spasticity in my right leg I put this pain up there with child birth.  It wasn’t easy and what should have been a normal 15 minute procedure turned into a 30 minute nightmare with several apologies of “this never happens and its because you are jumpy.”  Oh yeah, that’s not really an apology is it?  By the second week the doctors decided “You have transverse myletis.  It’s a rare autoimmune disease where your body attacks the spinal cord.  Specifically, the myelin protecting your nerves wrapped around your spine.  I’m sorry their is no cure the most we can do to get your leg back is see if you respond in rehabilitation.” At this point I’m thinking she is not telling me this. I spent the next six weeks in “in-house” hospital rehabilitation and occupational therapy.