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MSDave · 11-24-2008, 05:53 PM

Thanks for the encouragement folks, really.

You will see soon enough, what can happen when you decide things\developments have reached a peak and so you stop looking and learning.

When I 'was' on top of the game and could go one on one with any doctor, there were the A-B-C drugs out and Novantrone was in it's infancy. "They" weren't sure yet if the novantrone treatment was actually worth the risk, when one looked at the side effects.

Anyway, looking now I see all kinds of new things out there, and the research seems new and fresh again.

Currently I am working on my own cognition problems that have sprung up in the last few months; well that and a situation with sleep. Due to military training/shell-shock, I used to sleep with a 'hair-trigger,' meaning at the slightest sound I would wake in the attack mode.

Being a para means for the most part I am not really too dangerous. However with this new thing, my aid will come to the door, ring the bell, let herself in, try to call my name and wake me, then use the phone to call me. When none of this works she yells my name and I jump, waking very angry.

Not good; not good at all. Especially since in addition to everything else wrong, I have apnea and could wake up dead some day. Haaaaarrrumph!!! I digress, sorry.

Anyway, I have a lot of irons in my personal fire right now, however I am trying to get here once a day. Not always possible but I'm trying.

Discussing every aspect of MS, (well most of them anyway )is a good way of working through things one is going through. Lastly, for now, I am going to push and push my doc to drop in here and look round. I think there is much here for her to see/read.

Ciao! Dave