May 15th Bloggers Unite for Human Rights

I have always supported a great cause, this year bloggers unite for Human Rights. Being in the South I have seen a tremendous amount of degredation. I would support this cause but feel there are a ton of other causes that lack the attention the should get. Trying to find a certain cause is just to tremendous to take on. Therefore I am listing a groups of causes I would like to be heard. I hope all bloggers unite on this day and let our voices be heard.

Sudanese
Somalia
Child soldiers
Violence against children
Violence against Women

Here Is Hoping for Sydney Australia Break This Year

My husband and I took a mini vacation this past weekend just to get out of the house. We went to an old historic town called Gadsden. We lucked up because they had their first annual Crawfish Broil on Saturday. Not only did we get to see a very historical city but was able to sit out by the River and eat all we could eat. This was one of many Weekend Breaks we take every year. We scurry around and find new places to go to on these mini vacations about every other weekend.

Now our real vacations are a week long. Every year we dream about going to Australia but never seem to be able to get it together enough to get a ticket and go. Hopefully we can use this company Dialaflight.com and make that special trip to Sydney this year. Now that would really make my year.

My Mother's Day

My daughter called me to wish me a Happy Mother's Day. She was having a good day and I asked her how her mother's day went. She said she is doing extremely well at this time. We hope the MS is in remission and will not show it's ugly face for a while.

Renuzit Tri-Scents Semi-Finalist Vote For Your Favorite

This family is a semi-finalists in the Tri-Scents $20,000 Transform your home contest. I voted for them because they have a ton of children and getting them all on video was a challenge in itself. The video was very well laid out and had a very well thought out plot. This family deserves to win this as they were all involved.

There are four girls and one boy and the Mom and Dad. The mom has bought several Renuzit Tri-Scents and everyone is running around trying to find places to put them. The girls are having some hard times with some of the smells they run across. The young boy has a great time letting everyone come into his room and put their fingers over their noses. This is a great opportunity for someone to get a complete makeover and you have ten videos to choose from and all of them are funny.

Everyone needs to go to semi-finalist gallery and vote for this family they need the makeover just to make room for all the kids they have. I have not seen this many kids in a family since my mother had five kids. Give these kids the break they are looking for. You will see their smiling faces as winners if they get enough votes. Come on bloggers get to it make it the best for these kids.


visit http://www.triscents.com/gallery.asp and vote for your favorite submission with up to one vote per day through June 7.

Tornado Season

We just went through another bad episode of extremely bad weather. This is a normal circumstance in the south and we are getting used to it again. I hope we do not get too used to it as this causes people to get careless.

Set a "Spark" at Social Spark

One of my earlier posts was about Delusional Angel. I met her at the new SocialSpark. I met her from a "Spark" as we call it. I wanted to get the word out about Multiple Sclerosis, and met her online as one of it's victims. She wrote a small article and included me in it to try and set a "Spark" for Multiple Sclerosis.

This community of bloggers are the best in the business and advertisers know it. I have yet to find another opportunity as well programmed and run as this community. There had to be a ton of trial and error in this to make it work so well. It is very user friendly and I have enjoyed working for the owners Izea and Pay Per Post.

There are a few "bugs" but the only one I have truly noticed is trying to put a comment in with IE. I am not certain if they have worked on this yet, but for such a small problem I do not believe this to be a major issue.

I have met a ton of great people on this site and never thought I would have so many people offering to be my online friend. I am a very shy person and do not get to know people very well, but I feel as if this site and the owners give this the most personable site I have ever run across.

One other person I would like to mention is and advertiser/blogger Dan Rue. He was the one that got me started with the spark for Multiple Sclerosis. Thanks Dan and good luck with Tyler's Hope.

Maybe someday this will make sense

My daughters MS has taught her excercise is the most important part of her routine. Just getting out of the house and walking is a tremendous effort for her. She is on medication. She decided to take medication because it takes so long to diagnose MS the symptoms she has had become severe. She is walking with a cane. You have to understand that her prior dancing had a lot to do with her legs. Once she had strong beautiful legs and because this was the toughest part of her body for some reason the MS attacked there first.

I am just learning and typing. Maybe someday this will make sense.

Sleeping through the night is something I look forward too

The older I get the harder it is to sleep. My brain continues to be active all night long and I actually have to think about a brick wall or a valley of flowers to sooth myself to sleep. Recently I have been taking a mild sleeping pill but I still wake up in the middle of the night. I had come to the conclusion that I was no longer going to sleep at night except for a few hours until I heard about the White Noise Generator.

This may not be knew to some people but it is to me. This little box creates soothing sounds like Rainfall, Ocean Waves, Summer Night, Waterfall and many more. I have noticed if I leave the television on I can go to sleep better but it wakes me up in the middle of the night with these loud commercials. This box called the The ObusForme® Sound Therapy Relaxation System is something I am going to look into and see if I can finally get a good nights sleep. Sleeping through the night is something I look forward too.

Thank you Delusional Angel

This is a special post to a young woman that I have connected with that has MS also. She was kind enough to mention my website on hers and how I reminded her of her mom when they found out she has MS.

Delusional Angel you have helped my sole thank you.

Epstein-Barr and MS

This is very interesting that the American Medical Association can actually link Mononucleosis to Multiple Sclerosis. There are several diseases that can be linked to problems that are caused later in life.

In 2003, a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggested that increased levels of immune antibodies that fight Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV)—the very common virus that causes infectious mononucleosis and other disorders—may be associated with an increased risk of developing MS. Although no causal relationship was established between EBV and multiple sclerosis, the researchers found that in spite of the fact that virtually all of the study participants, with and without MS, had early exposure to this virus, the antibodies to EBV were consistently higher in those individuals who subsequently developed MS than in the control group that did not develop MS. Furthermore, the risk of developing MS increased with increasing levels of antibodies, which were subsequently found to increase with age.

In 2006, investigators reported that individuals who showed signs of significant exposure to the Epstein-Barr virus were twice as likely to develop MS up to 20 years later. While this study, funded in part by a pilot research grant from the National MS Society, added more evidence linking the virus to the risk of developing MS, it still did not prove that EBV actually causes MS.

In 2007, investigators reported finding traces of Epstein-Barr virus in postmortem brains examined from people with different forms of MS. They found traces of EBV infection in immune cells (B cells and plasma cells) that had infiltrated 21 out of 22 brains from people with MS, but not in brains from people who had other neurological diseases that, like MS, involve inflammation. If these exciting findings are confirmed by other laboratories, they will add to growing evidence of a link between EBV and MS.

In spite of these findings, however, it is still not possible to determine whether EBV causes MS, or whether its presence is a consequence of MS.