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"... Happy birthday to meeee." It's official: I'm older than dirt. Fifty-six today, Sunday. At least it's going to be warm again, though it sure didn't feel very warm Saturday. News said it was 80, but it wasn't no 80 degrees in my back yard. No way. I put on cropped pants and nearly froze to death. Okay, so I exaggerate. Sue me. Tomorrow I am planning to make potato salad to have with dinner, which I expect will be BBQ'd veggie burgers. Yummm. Can you tell I am tired of frozen entrees? I also have to make a trip up to Starbuck's to get my free birthday beverage. Last year I kept putting it off and missed out. What's the point of registering your S'buck's card of you're not going to take advantage of its benefits? I also have to make some banana bread as the bananas that I bought green ripened faster than I thought they would. So I put them in the fridge hoping they will hold until Monday. Actually I'll probably make muf...

I just watched this TED talk about consciousness which was interesting in and of itself, but what I found most interesting was the last five minutes - after his talk. Imagine if they could implant electrodes inside our damaged MS brains and let us strap on a receiver so we all could walk normally once again. Unfortunately, our world is still too greedy for this to happen - at least in my lifetime. What a long way we still need to go before we can consider ourselves evolved. Interesting, too, that he talked about brain plasticity. That, in a nutshell, means that nothing is absolute where brain injury is concerned, and that we, as people with MS, should never give up hope. ~~~~~~~~~~~~  Lessee - about my MRI   -  No new lesions, no new activity, a couple old T2,T3 lesions - so no steroids are called for.  if I want to go back on the C I need to give Shared Solutions a call, and they will arrange it for me, and tell me if it's okay to use what I have in the fridg...