Real MS Voices

I was asked by Real MS Voices to share their contest.....You can decide for yourself.....This is what they wrote me:

"Real MS is engaging people living with MS as well as individuals impacted by MS around the world in a global design competition .  The challenge is to come up with a unique and innovative idea for a new gadget or technology that could help someone overcome a challenge of living with MS. The winner will receive a trip to a global design firm’s studios, where their idea will be brought to life in the form of drawings, visual mock-ups, and possibly even a prototype." 

 

 

I know my Hubs is creative such as trying to make a Smart Car Handicap Accessible (we are still working on that idea)......however we have no ideas yet for this contest.

 

MSer's sometimes have to invent things in order to live with MS!  This site seems to be worth checking out.....

"To Touch The Past" Book

This is not a book review since I had a very small part in helping to write the book.

It started with me enrolling in Ms. Kathy Thompson's Photojournalism class back in High School.

The class wrote the book "Touching Home".    I remember Ms. Thompson working very hard on the book as most teachers do.

I went along with others to the interviews but I too shy to say much......The interview I Remember the most was with a teacher about "One Room Schools".

It is no longer in publication but "To Touch the Past" is a new version of it....which is still about our Appalachian Life.

I still have some of the words echoing in my head when I read the book again.

My MS continues to be Inactive

Net pic

I went to Shepherd's MS Institute in Atlanta for my yearly check up with an MRI scan of my brain (yep I still have a brain)......

The doc said "Your MS is still Inactive". 

That was great news to me but how do I have new pains such as a "burning sensation" in parts of my body?  and Leg spasms.

I cannot take the medicine they recommend for nerve pain during the day without being Loopy!

Thankfully I was sorta pain-free for 30 years with MS.  I just had to add my complaints or reality nowadays.

I will not complain much since I saw others in the MS Center that were much worse than I....and some were so young.....

If I have to have MS, then Inactive is the kind to have.

I Caught my Horse-Dog Sleeping!

When I Draagg myself to the living room so early, What do I see?

My horse dog is sleeping! 

It is a few minutes after he woke me up at 6am!  

I say "WHAT are you doing after waking me up at the break of dawn?"

He replies "Duh Rrruuhh, I am sleepy since I got up so early!"

You can see the guilt in his drowsy eyes!

My Guradian Angel or My Uncle

Carson and Nate

I feel that I should share this story of protection from 30 years ago......it is burned into my memory.

I have always felt that God was there at the right moment even if it was my Uncle Carson.

It was a bitterly cold night as I was leaving my Aunt and Uncles house. 

Uncle Carson came out on the porch and said "I will watch you go to your car".  He had never watched me before so....

I said "Oh no Carson, I will be fine and it is too cold for you to stand outside" but he did not go back into the house as I walked (normally back then) to my car....

When I got to my car......I stopped suddenly when I saw a man crouched down between my car and another car.....

I yelled "Carson there is a man out here beside my car"

When Carson got to the car and talked to the man, Carson was not sure what to do so he let the man go on down the road???

We regret that we did not call the police but this was a rural area where we did trust too much........cannot change it now....

There are many things that we do not understand in life....but this was one time that I felt protection, after all I could have disappeared......