As Sally said, thank you very much for sharing. As a newbie to both this disease and in life by y'all's yardsticks . I am always impressed by the elasticity of the brain. A glorified gelatinous battery but how remarkable it's capabilities are.

Leaving aside the tiny sparks created to transmit information to limbs, or more impressive how a little energized neutron can communicate information externally, received and analyzed by another's energized neutron! Language! It's fascinating just by its everyday processes, but injury to the brain is where the awe-inspiring becomes something so much more.

We truly do use so much more of brains than earlier believed, the whole 10% is a myth, and yet our brains are still able to tap into varied areas, sharing space and information, and somehow for a lot of folks out there, not getting confused by itself in the process, when injury or disease mandates.

Of course the only way it can manage to do so is pretty much as you described... Force it! Stubbornly refuse to let your own brain give you no for answer. I really wish it was only my brain telling me no, unfortunately MS took its toll on my ligaments and tendons before the doctors could catch it, I'm just hoping to avoid anymore soft tissue damage now. So the body's pretty well been put through the ringer, but when it comes to the rest, memory, creativity... I'll be sure to continue my quest to keep the mind sharpened.

Heck I overcame dyslexia by memorizing the Oxford English Dictionary (the tome version, not the paperback ) and even took it further to learning German, French and (still working on) Japanese. So I'll be sure to keep those little neutron bouncing around and plowing through any roadblocks.