Batman -

copaxone failure or any other drug "failure" is really not an expected term. Not with MS.

I know you're in the mildly impacted group of this disease (sorry - a personal observation). So just put up with me on this...

I was dx'ed prior to all these lovely drugs being available. I had a dramatic increase in lesions as shown up on MRI in 2005. I mean - from less than ten to over 30. It scared the bejesus out of me. I actually started taking copaxone - which lasted less than 30 days.

Hey, I've had MS for 22 years. Let's get together and compare how much this disease really affects our lives. I'm of the opinion that it doesn't really affect our lives all that much with cases like ours.

You'll probably be riding in the BP150 this year. I'll be in Memorial Park checking in riders and slamming down beers prior to the event (hey - priorities...). Is there a concern about increased lesion count? My dramatic count jump was 5 years ago. Ask me in 20 years if it matters. It don't matter now. I don't know what adding years would do to influence my conclusions.

You live in Houston, right? Want a tour of Johnson Space Center? Not that tram type tour, but a real tour where you can actually be IN the mission control rooms and flight simulators and shuttle simulators and all that crap?

What I can show you - you would feel like you had the presidential tour. Just not during mission - next shuttle mission is 2/7-2/19. I'm not supposed to take people into mission control during mission.

MS sucks. Try to forget about it. What the hell else can we do?

Tom