Information and opinions on Multiple Sclerosis from rwboughton at MultipleSclerosisCentral.com. The HealthCentral Network, Inc. (www.HealthCentral.com) is one of the top health destinations on the Web, with more than 35 condition-specific, wellness and general health Web properties. http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/26817 http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/26817/rss self application/xml en-us 15 120 19 http://www.healthcentral.com/images/hc_logo_sm.gif http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/26817 http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/26817/49119/huns Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:00:17 -0500 rwboughton Time was when the citizens of Rome could sit back on their chaise lounges, sip mint juleps and enjoy a detached sort of discussion about those Huns in the hinterlands, stirring up trouble again. Faraway fires, rumors of war. What a pity for those distant victims of rebellion. We'll have to send another legion.Ah, but in Rome, all is well.But by and by troubles start creeping in a little too close for comfort. An element of real alarm enters into... http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/26817/49119/huns http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/26817/48524/agent Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:32:41 -0500 rwboughton Having signed now with an agent in hopes of selling my book to a publisher, I will take the presumptuous step of asking assistance from you all. Publishing houses nowadays are businesses first and foremost. In other words, their main concern is with making money. Therefore my main task at this stage is to convince them that they could make money on a book centering largely on living with a disease. In other words, I have my work cut out for... http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/26817/48524/agent http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/26817/47370/late Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:28:11 -0500 rwboughton I am not dying. Not because of MS anyway. Or of anything else that I know of at the moment. But I am living more vitally, more completely--and that is because of MS. It's an irony, yes? A paradox. Illness and disability have a way of making mortality more real, more immediate, than it had seemed before. The motions of time have entered me physically, flowing now in my blood, buzzing in my extremities, burning little holes in my brain.What I do... http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/26817/47370/late http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/26817/46153/whoops Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:05:03 -0400 rwboughton Link should have sent you here:   <a href="http://www.everyonehereisjimdandy.blogspot.com">Click here to visit my new website!</a> http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/26817/46153/whoops http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/26817/43872/trouble Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:20:36 -0400 rwboughton I have trouble with parking lots.  Parking lots and banks.  And video stores.  I have trouble with slots where things are to be deposited.  This morning I deposited my Comcast payment in the Hollywood Video slot and was on the way to the mailbox with my DVD rental when I finally realized my mistake.  The thing about parking lots is that I never know how I got in or what I need to do to get out.   Yesterday we... http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/26817/43872/trouble http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/26817/43286/nature Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:23:59 -0400 rwboughton I'm thinking that when physicians come up with names, and causes, and criteria for diseases perhaps we take them a little too seriously.  It is not, after all, as if they were describing the appearance of some creature standing right in front of them-a Dalmatian, for instance, or an aardvark.  It is not as if they invented the disease and accordingly know everything about it.  Rather, they are poking about in the murky waters in... http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/26817/43286/nature http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/26817/42431/ma-legs Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:31:24 -0400 rwboughton Some of my best thinking is done in the shower.  There's just something about the peace and the warmth and the flowing water that conveys my thoughts along unfettered, as if they were paper boats in a stream.   The trouble is, once I get out of the shower, my thoughts stay in and I am left aware only that I had enjoyed just moments ago an episode of cogency.   It occurs to me, too, that if my arms were not as strong as they... http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/26817/42431/ma-legs http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/26817/40532/lost Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:32:21 -0400 rwboughton On Monday I got lost in a parking lot.  I will say in my defense that it is a very large parking lot; yet I remain amazed, even in hindsight, at my almost complete inability to escape.    I had stopped by this particular outdoor mall to grab a coffee on the way to pick up my son at school.  It was certainly easy enough to drive in to the lot and park in front of the Starbucks store.  Yet somehow upon leaving I found... http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/26817/40532/lost http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/26817/40396/things Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:29:17 -0400 rwboughton   No joke.  Each of the items in the following list has been seriously posited and studied.   Epstein-Barr virus. Lack of Vitamin D. Milk from cows. Lack of milk from cows. Asperteme. Cigarette smoking. Military service in Iraq. Northern European ancestry. Herpes Simplex virus. Childhood vaccinations. Emotional trauma. Air pollution. Employment in the healthcare field.       Things... http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/26817/40396/things http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/26817/40147/boogie Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:30:23 -0400 rwboughton   Does anyone else get this thing where you're trying to sleep but your legs won't stay still?  I mean, the rest of my body can be dead tired, but my legs just got to dance.  Heck, they weren't nearly this active back in my club hopping days.  Waz'up with that?   So here I sit at midnight, having boogied my way out of bed to the kitchen.  What do they want, these legs?  Nachos, it seems.  Mmm,... http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/26817/40147/boogie