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Let’s write about MS.

Flashback to question from 2017, and what I was tentatively examining back then.


Are you listed as an organ or bone marrow donor? Why or why not?
Yes. Because I really don’t need them after I’m dead; what do I care?
Whether there’d be much to salvage from my diseased body is a different story, altogether.

So, more 2012 recycling….

You see what I wrote above, so again….

Are you listed as an organ or bone marrow donor? Why or why not?

I don’t know? I don’t have a driver’s license anymore, so I don’t think I had to answer the question about the organ donor bit.

Would anyone want my bone marrow with the various maladies I’ve developed, the abuse to which I’ve subjected my body? I don’t know.

It’s incredible how heavy these questions seemed back then. Today, who really cares? By and large, anything that’s in my body can be used by whoever needs it.

I have told my wife that I would like whatever’s left of me to be fired into the sun. If they haven’t figured out the process when it happens, cremation works.

I hope that I’ll find motivation to do a few more in-advance prompts tonight/tomorrow. I’ll probably spill my Thanksgiving plans Monday, then write about how it went on Friday.


I had a pointer here wanting to write about how the hopes of success on this were vanquished. My skills searching the web are really failing on this. NHI study. It looks like a lot of the promise Dr. Zamboni had found weren’t reproducible.

I remember reading MRI results not terribly long ago where the analyst did seek to rebut the CCSVI diagnosis on my results; my head drains just fine.

Nobody knows what caused my MS.

I’ve been on Keysimpta since last summer. I really don’t know how well, or if, it’s working. I don’t think I really wrote too much about starting my current DMT.

The first half-dose of it was absolute hell. the second wasn’t fun. The third half-dose wasn’t really much to talk about. Then onto the regular once-a-month schedule. Oddly enough, my day-of-the-month for taking it is the 29th, which worked this year. I don’t know what I’ll do in future years, since for 75% od years, there’s no February 29th.

Since I’ve been on the drug, I’ve noticed some end-of-dose weirdness a few times. I do wonder if I’ve had at least one exacerbation, but I won’t know until I have an MRI this summer.

But are the somewhat-strange things I’ve had going on just because I’ve been over-exerting myself?

I don’t know.

I’m going to stick with the exercise stuff I’ve been doing at least through the end of the year. I don’t know what I’ve really seen a ton of benefits yet aside from increases in strength and endurance. I don’t know that there’s that much discernable benefit yet; I haven’t lost that much weight.

My balance certainly is better despite falling this morning after being startled by a dog in the complex.

Hey! Can you take out the things in the flower beds with thorns?

But I’m going to forego the new COVID shots. I don’t know that I’d get any benefit from it, and I don’t want to do anything until I’m sure that everything’s settled with the DMT.

I do have another colonoscopy next year.

I wish there was a way to combine the propofol for both procedures. I wouldn’t care at all about being stuck in the tube if I was on that…..

But, thankfully, I think I’m finished for the year with medical stuff.

But I did finish a lot of my most-pressing work. Hopefully I can finish paying my protection to the certification cabal again, and be finished.

I’ve tried to get things set up for the final Shmoocon, but haven’t gotten a response so far. I want to buy two of the sponsor-a-student tickets to make sure I can go, and maybe set up one of my friends who’ve been around for a long time.

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Along those lines, I’m halfway tempted to see about setting up an alternate version at the Wardman Park Marriott again just for commiseration.

You member when the glass roof collapsed?

Yeah, I member.

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