Around the holidays or any family gathering...

The older family members sit around a table and compare health-complaints and problems ... the discussion goes on and on...

ankle problems, weight problems, going to 3 doctors for 4 different problems...

again it goes on and on...

They all know I have MS and they don't dare to invite me into the conversation because they know what my response would be:

"Ya, I'm doing okay... given that I have a disease that has no cure because a direct cause hasn't been discovered"

Right now, for me, the MS is invisible i.e. my symptoms -- fatigue, cognition...

Oh, I sometimes get the honey-bee sting therapy suggestion. No thanks.

The bee-sting one... "oh, I heard some people got cured for [X, Y or Z] from getting stung" ....

that would count as one of the dumbest things I've heard...

Niko