Pyr2,

The only way to confirm MSA is post-mortem, so I am not in any rush to ever have it confirmed. Rather fond of my brain, so I plan to keep it for some years.

Every evening reflect on what is good in your life, give thanks to everything you have. I always joked, family, health, roof over my head. I do not want for anything else. Well now I realize two out of three isn't bad.

Every morning is wonderful. Take it each day at a time. No need to be greedy about too much in the future. I'd love to meet my grandchildren someday, still lots of things to do and learn, but when you think of our universe being billions of years and life is just a flash of time. What an incredible time we live in, just amazing.

As to my brain, my family is well aware of my wishes to help out everyone else, even post-mortem:
http://www.parkinson.org/pd-library/...brain-donation

Tom