MS News: January 2018
Your monthly MS news is back after spending a few months in the cooler. It will continue as before, with highlights, news on research and clinical trials as well as lifestyle, diet and mental and emotional health. If you found an article you want to add to this post, please let me know. Highlight! 5 Tips Managing Cold and Flu Season with MS A UCL Special Grand Round: Recent Advances in Multiple Sclerosis Predicting MS in Patients With Clinically Isolated Syndrome: MAGNIMS vs McDonald Criteria Online Video Aims to Show How ‘Invisible’ Disabilities Affect Lives Video on Invisible Disabilities Breaks Down Barriers and Helps Make Connections Research in Ireland Five leading Irish-based researchers to share SFI prize of €7m Two Trinity Researchers Among Five Winners of €7m in Funding
The story in all of us
MS is a mere aspect, label or classification. My story is therefore not one of heroism or tragedy, satire or drama, cheap thrills or grandeur. Showing up for myself in my own life means taking responsibility for the good and the bad while also trying to achieve goals I set myself for 2018.
Happy 2018!
Happy New Year!
The paradox of our time
Is that we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers. Wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but we have less. We buy more but enjoy it less. We have bigger houses, but smaller families. More conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees, but less sense. More knowledge, but less judgement. More experts, yet more problems. We have more gadgets, but less satisfaction. More medicines, but less wellness. We take more vitamins but see fewer results. We drink too much; smoke too much; spend too recklessly; laugh too little; drive too fast; get too angry quickly; stay up too late; get up too tired; read too seldom; watch TV too much and pray too seldom. We have multiplied our possessions but reduced our values. We fly in faster planes…
Where is my left cheek?!
Trigeminal neuralgia feels like a vicious affair, and it is still hard to know who came first, TN or MS. Being a lover of Shakespearean drama, they would tell you they arrived around the same time.
MS, Inc.
Perhaps losing my only sibling over a decade ago recreated the perspective on life I once held. It poured resilience into a mind that required to be strengthened for the many years ahead. Hope became the antidote to being tired of always being sick and tired.
Understanding clinical trials
A clinical trial is a research study in which volunteers receive investigational treatments under the supervision of a physician and other research professionals. These treatments are developed by pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies who select qualified physicians, also known as investigators, to conduct clinical trials to determine the benefits of investigational drugs. Clinical trials are usually conducted in three phases (I, II, III). Only a small number of people participate in phase I trials while the later phases involve a larger number of volunteers. To get involved in MS research in the US, please click here. © Willeke Van Eeckhoutte and Ireland, Multiple Sclerosis & Me, 2011-2017. Unauthorised use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this blog’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used,…
