MS Maze

Swish… swish… swish…

My slippers make a swishing sound as I slide my feet over the bare wood floors of my home. “Pick up your feet!” My mother’s admonishment echoes through the years in my head. She wouldn’t say that to me now, of course. It isn’t laziness that causes me to drag my feet. It’s multiple sclerosis that makes it all but impossible to fully lift my feet off the floor when I walk.

Five years after diagnosis, I’m still fortunate enough to have relapsing/remitting MS rather than the progressive type. In a previous post, I rejoiced in new research that reversed disability in early-stage MS patients…

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Stem Cell Research: For or Against

When personal freedom and medical science collide, we’ve got a problem.

The announcement that a California woman recently gave birth to octuplets grabbed headlines around the globe. The fascination was not only that all eight babies were expected to survive, but that the woman already had six children–all conceived through in vitro fertilization. Red flags are popping up everywhere.

I don’t think we, as Americans, want to live in a society where doctors–or anyone else for that matter–can dictate how large or small our families become. That is an intensely personal matter. Who among us would sit in judgement? But in the case of in vitro fertilization, the health and welfare of the mother, as well as that of the babies, must take top priority for physicians…

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Octuplet Birth Raises Ethical Questions About Infertility Treatments

During the past month, my wife, Mandy and I have made some new friends. Friends with names like @thepaintingdude and @mike2mb. Although the chances of us ever having a face to face meeting with them are pretty slim, we know a lot about them. Using a phrase that is getting more and more use today, we ‘found them on the Internet.’

How we found these folks is the interesting part. Why we found them, and others, is a whole other story. But what I think may be the long-term consequences of having found them is why I’m writing this post.

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This post, links included, comes to MS Maze courtesy of Lisa Emrich of Brass and Ivory. We’re happy to help spread the Linky Love!

A unique Internet tradition and its great holiday is celebrated on February 3, Blogroll Amnesty Day, a day when we salute smaller blogs. Blogroll Amnesty Day, or B.A.D., was not always such a happy day. In fact, the first Blogroll Amnesty Day, way back in ought seven, was one of the darkest days in the blogosphere. Read here about that once terrible day which has been turned into a celebration and an annual tradition.

Celebrating Blogroll Amnesty Day is easy. I’ve started with the MS Blogger Blogroll. What you can do is copy/paste this post (including the links!!!) and post it on your own blog. If you do something special to celebrate, like ZenComix who has drawn a cartoon, please let me know. You can also let the originator of the tradition know what you are doing to celebrate by emailing Jon or Skippy.

• A
• A Florida Journal
• A Short in the Cord
• A Stellarlife
• Access denied-living with multiple sclerosis
• AnnSawyer’s blog | The MS Recovery Diet
• At Last! Time to Deal With Multiple Sclerosis by Homer
• Atypical Multiple Sclerosis by Cindy
• B
• because I think I have something to say…
• Behind Blue Eyes by Zee
• Bifurcate In The Road
• Blindbeard’s Multiple Sclerosis Blog
• Brain Cheese
• Brass and Ivory
• Breaking The Dress Code
• brokenclay.org/journal by Katja
• Bubbie’s Blog
• bugs, bikes, and brains
• C
• Camille’s MSadventures
• Can You Hear Me Now? by Donna
• CarePear by Carolyn
• Carnival of MS Bloggers
• Carole’s MS blog
• Carolyne’s MS Odyssey
• Chain Reaction
• chapter 7 – the daily tissue
• Chemo is Not a Pony
• ChrisHadMS.com – (HiCy) patient
• Clods and Pebbles
• Conquer Multiple Sclerosis
• Curiouser and Curiouser- Life with M.S
• Curmudgeonette by Pamela
• D-F
• Dancing with MS by Lazscott
• De-Clare-ation
• Delving Under the Covers by Charlene
• Did you know Montel Willams has that?
• Disabled Not Dead
• Down the MS Path
• Emms’ Bits
• Everyday Life With MS by Lora
• Everyone Here Is Jim Dandy
• Fingolimod and Me
• G-I
• God Lives
• halt stop forget relax
• Hazel is in the Eye of the Beholder
• I hate MS
• If You’ve Got It, Flaunt It!
• I’m an MS Activist
• Individualisticity
• Irreverence is Justified
• IT DOESN’T HAVE ME~~~~ I HAVE IT
• It Is No Bad Thing To Celebrate A Simple Life by Pam
• J-L
• Jen’s MS blog
• Jim’s DEEP Thoughts
• Judi B’s blog
• Libbi’s MS Journey
• Life with MS & EDS
• Life with MS – Trevis
• Living Life as a Snowflake
• Living Life One Day At A Time
• Living Life with Multiple Sclerosis
• Living well with Multiple sclerosis
• Living With MS by Lauren
• Living with Multiple Sclerosis by Laurie
• Living! with MS
• Living-With-MS
• Looking Forward with Multiple Sclerosis
• Lorna’s Blog
• M
• Maggsbunny
• Managing Multiple Sclerosis
• Mark and MS
• Maybe I’m Just Lazy: One Woman’s Journey Through MS and Life
• Me, myself and MS
• Melissa Summers
• Merely Me’s Writing to Survive
• Messy Stuff: A Life with MS and Other Ramblings
• Mima’s doings
• MS AND ME. by MS Mom
• MS and Zen
• MS Dissonance by Shannon
• MS Maze by Mandy
• MS Musings
• MS News and Notes by Deb
• ms not just a diary.
• MS Observer
• MS Strength by Jen
• MS. by ME
• Ms. Jan
• MSB’s Podcast by Charles
• MS~LOL: Life Of Learning by Amy
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Multiple Sclerosis & Faith
• Multiple Sclerosis & Life
• Multiple Sclerosis Blog by Charles
• Multiple Sclerosis Notes
• Multiple-Sclerosis-Chiefs-Oracle-Dad by Jamie
• My beloved monster and me…
• My Demyelination
• My husband’s health (and mine now too)
• My Journey with MS
• My Journey with MS
• My journey with Multiple Sclerosis
• My Journey: Living Well with MS by Diana
• My Life and Dealing With MS
• My MS Journal
• My Story of Life with Lyme and MS
• N-P
• Navigating the Journey of MS
• Newly Diagnosed MS
• No Empire No More
• No time for MS
• One Crazy Chick
• one life
• Persnickety by Dianne
• Perspective Is Everything
• Planning The Unpredictable
• Pook & Lexi by Cynthia
• Postcards of my Life
• R-S
• Rayne’s World by Jayme
• Real Life & Loves, Living With Multiple Sclerosis
• Reality Chick by Keli
• Rebooting Kathy
• Retired Waif
• Ricks MS Weblog
• Say It Isn’t So by Mouse
• Serina’s Blog
• Shake & spear
• Shoester by Doug
• slipping through my fingers
• Sunshine and Moonlight — A Journey with Multiple Sclerosis
• Surviving Multiple Sclerosis by Robin
• T-V
• The Barber Three by Iainaks
• The Intelligent Person’s Guide to Beating MS by Rebecca
• The Lemon~Aid Stand by Erin
• The Life & Times Of Sancho Knotwise
• The Life of BMW by Brian
• The Multiple Sclerosis Companion by Pat
• The Secret of My MS
• The Zen Pretzel Trick
• These Pretzels Are Making Me Thirsty
• Tippy Topple
• ‘Tis Herself by Kell
• Travels with Lucy
• Tysabri — for those with MS it’s the best option by Deej
• Vicki’s Blog
• Victoria Mary Plum
• viva la vida by Fatty Boombah
• W-Y
• When it is raining cats and dogs!!!
• White Lightning Axiom: Redux
• Word Salads,the Demyelination of Me and the Breakdown of a Marriage
• » WTF « by Chris

  YodaMamma MS & More

What a story! For the very first time, disability has been reversed in patients in the early stages of multiple sclerosis. Let’s just take a moment to let that soak in. Disability has not only been halted, it has actually been reversed!

Multiple sclerosis is a disease of the central nervous system. In patients with MS, the immune system mistakenly attacks myelin, the protective sheath that surrounds nerves and speeds the transmission of impulses along the nerve cells. This causes a breakdown in communication between the central nervous system and the rest of the body, causing a wide variety of symptoms, including visual disturbances, vertigo, coordination problems, and paralysis.

The history-making research was conducted at Northwestern U…

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Reason to Rejoice – Research Breakthrough Reverses MS Disability