multiple sclerosis

multiple sclerosis

Core of the Matter

It is one of the nights where I really do not have anything much to say. I have been tired this weekend and spent most of my time watching the races, reading, laying about the place. Now you would think as tired as I feel I could get to sleep at a decent time – like before 4am.
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The rain does not entice me into going outside, I don’t wanna be around a bunch of people, and my eye balls are misbehaving. So, pretty much doing nothing is it right now. I need to fix the downstairs bathroom sink. It is a pedestal type and I had to remove it from the wall in order to replace the faucet and drain pipe. Have I done it – NO . … my camera gear is in a disarranged pile on my work area right behind me and I should get all the lens etc back into the case – emmmm.. I have been using my little point n shoot Pentax to take silly pics around the house. I need to charge my D80 batteries, another on the list of chit I have not done.
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I did get off my lazy arse to look for my MP3 player. I drove myself nuts trying to figure out where the heck I had left it only to find it in Mr. Catfish’s pile of toys. LOL my dog snitched my MP4 player – I guess he likes the tunes? Maybe the bright yellow color? The battery is dead now too so he must have turned it on. Don’t snicker, both our dogs turn the television on and off and change the channels while we are gone.pinkyandmp3player
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Now once and awhile I find the urge to share secrets here – just cause. Those of you who have read this blog long enough know that I love(d) to ride motorcycles. In fact right before I had my stokes I had just purchased a new one. If I only new . … it sits in the back yard all covered up snug as a bug waiting for me to sale it.

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In 2004 I promised my docs that oh no! I would never be stupid enough to ride it! Well . …:mrgreen:

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I will spill the beans. First off, let me say, I do not ride it anymore :(. But, I did manage to get in some rides before letting go. I love to feeling when I ride. I rode the first time in 1975 and fell in love with the feeling of freedom.  I even spent some productive time working as a mechanics helper in a motorcycle shop. Ok, back to the secret. I rode it OK. My last ride was 2006 when I somehow managed to stay upright (rubber side down) and made it up to Redding to the Hog State Rally. When I arrived at my friends house I could not even get my tired arse off of it. I had blast getting there though.  The sad thing was on the way home I knew that it was my last ride. For the first time in my life I had to admit that no matter how hard I tried, no matter how much effort I put towards a goal – it was useless. Bummer.

Hog Patches

Hog Patches

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My docs would more than likely fill out one of those DMV forms if they knew I rode it, ever, at all, period. I sort of lied my way out of that one – the thought of losing my M class one my license was a super big deal to me.  Now I just count myself lucky that I can still operate my truck safely.
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In the last few years I have had more bummer moments. The past six months have brought way too many bummer moments and now this stupid MS crap. I guess having a name for all this crazy stuff is better than not, then again I am not so sure about that either.
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Instead souring around corners and pushing the velocity barrier I navigate store isles and read about others great adventures. I am going to load the MP3 of Indiana Wants Me after listening to it over at A Stellar Life It plays right after Born To Be Wild and Logical. Ever heard Scooters version of Logical?
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MS has trapped some core part of my rebel soul and it so needs to fight it’s way out.

Chameleon MS Fighter One

Yes, here for your thoughts and wonderment I give you Chameleon the woman MS fighter. She is in training as we speak.

She is scheduled to join the MS Super Hero Team upon completion of rigorous combat and medical training.  It is expected that she will be fluent in neuro speak, MRI interpretation, and complete advance studies in psychology, microbiology, and hunting down evil misguided T-cells.
Her physical training will also include advanced dog ball throwing.

Clinical Research Study: Teriflunomide

Received a request to post this:

A Clinical Research Study Evaluating An Investigational Medication for Relapsing Forms of Multiple Sclerosis
Medical researchers are enrolling people in a worldwide clinical research study for people with relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis (RMS). This study will assess the safety and effectiveness of an investigational study medication versus placebo (an inactive substance which contains no active medication) in people ages 18-55 years old with RMS.

The investigational medication used in this study is called teriflunomide (ter-i-flün-?-mïde). It is derived from leflunomide (le-flü-n?-mïde), also known as Arava®. Arava® is already approved in many countries for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, another autoimmune disease.

The first step in determining eligibility for this study is to take the pre-screening questionnaire either online or on the phone. You will be asked a series of questions related to your health and be given additional information about study site locations. Visit http://www.tower3.msstudies.com or call 1-866-565-0245 today to learn more about the study and see if you may qualify.

So I did.

Me, Multiple Sclerosis, and WordPress

Sometimes the cognitive function – read lack of function -that comes along with multiple sclerosis really gets to me. I have always been fairly good with the coding, code was poetry, but now I find that it can turn to gibberish.

Then there is the clumsy part where my freeking fingers hit the wrong spot on the keyboard or loose control of the mouse at the very wrong time. This sometimes sends parts of the php file to oblivion or saves something at the wrong time.

Ok, yes, backing up all said files before even thinking about touching them helps but, and here is the cog fog again, more than once I have overwritten the original file on accident with the new file, that in turn of course does not work and stuff stops functioning.
I then find myself staring wonderingly at my WordPress files with a comprehension level of an ant.

WordPress is awesome but sometimes a plugin gone bad can drive me nuts. Especially after deactivating it and ending up with a persistent problem. After checking all the files in WordPress and my theme with no joy I start to suspect that something evil has been written to my database. Checking mysql databases is not my favorite thing in the best of times.

So, for your enjoyment and you had better think hey how cool at least she got something done after all the plugin errors.

Please notice that the header image I added to the theme is now click able and is set for home.


and that these cool boxes work although I have not a clue as to why I wanted them


with niffty colors and all I am ready for Easter

And they wrap like this right now all though I might come up with some more after I get over my plugin debacle. I still need to come up with some styles for blockquotes but I think I will wait a bit and make sure this theme renders well in all browsers and that I am ok with it. I liked the other one a lot but it showed bad behavior in IE plus the comments would never line up right in the side bar. The widget worked with other themes so it was the theme problem and I got tired of messing with.

So now you know one way multiple sclerosis effects me and I in turn bungle WordPress. And, how there is one plugin author out there that I would like to see . …


and that my comments pages are now threaded and you can request an notice that an update to any comment you make have a notice emailed to you.

So, get with the comments already -alright!!!

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