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Entries from September 2008

A trip to the ocean…

September 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment

is not complete unless MS girl falls on her rear end. I scared Tom a little when I fell on the slippery rocks down on the water. I think Tom was more hurt by it than I was. I just had a little cut on my hand. He [...]

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Tags: Travel

Debate Friday!

September 25th, 2008 · 4 Comments

I have been waiting for this debate for a while. Tom and I have planned a dinner of Indian food and I have the debate recording in HD. I hope McCain doesn’t disappoint all American’s by being too chicken shit to show up. If he ditches the American People… at least we [...]

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Tags: Insurance · Newly Diagnosed

Your vote for McCain is a vote against me 2

September 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

Stem cell research is always a touchy topic in politics. It’s a complicated topic to. The republicans say they for stem cell research and the democrats say they aren’t. The truth is, there are two types of stem cell research. The republicans are for adult stem cell research. The stem [...]

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Tags: Activism · Research

Your vote for McCain is a vote against me

September 23rd, 2008 · 3 Comments

My family and some friends read this blog so I urge those thinking about voting for McCain to think again. The Wall Street Journal had an article on Monday about McCain’s ideas on how to change the health insurance market. Here are the points made in the article:
McCain’s “Plan”
McCain’s health plan would cover [...]

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Tags: Insurance

More vitamin D research…

September 20th, 2008 · No Comments

Well, color me shocked… another study linking vitamin D to MS:
“The biomarker of vitamin D status was significantly lower in children diagnosed with MS to date,” Hanwell said. “Children diagnosed with MS had lower vitamin D levels than those not diagnosed. Another way of looking at it, as vitamin D status increased, children had a [...]

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Tags: Research

Ooops, I forgot.

September 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Last week, I forgot my shot twice. I don’t think its so much forgot because both nights I said I need to do my shot. I think its more that I don’t want to do my shot. I do not like the site reactions. Yeah, they aren’t horrible but they aren’t [...]

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Tags: Newly Diagnosed · Travel

9/11 (trademark)

September 10th, 2008 · No Comments

Please spend 8 minutes and 15 seconds of your life on 9/11 ™ to listen to this:
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Tags: Activism

My First Donation

September 10th, 2008 · No Comments

I made my first MS related donation the other day. I heard a coworker talking about how his wife was doing a bike ride for the National MS Society. Having researched the MS charities, it is one of the top ranked charities. I do like Accelerated Cure also.
I noticed that the National [...]

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Tags: Activism

I love Vitamin D

September 5th, 2008 · 11 Comments

I had my summary visit with my wonderful weight management doctor today. I am happy to report that my thyroid is finally stabilized. I think it took about 6-8 months to get the right dose but none the less, I feel so much better.
About 3 months ago I was put on 10,000 IU [...]

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Tags: Doctor Visits · Research

Be on Oprah?

September 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment

It looks like Oprah is looking for folks that have been diagnosed with a serious illness. I would think Multiple Sclerosis would qualify but no knows. If you are interested, go to this link and click “see all” under the health section.
They want a 2000 character letter about what you went [...]

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