Post #365045 by Suffering Bastard of Stumptown on Wed, Mar 5, 2008 7:27 PM

I really want to thank all of you for supporting this cause.
Proceeds are going to my MS Walk team.
Of course, why do I walk?
Because the light of my life, my best friend, my hunny, my wahine, Traci was diagnosed a couple years ago with MS.
while that diagnosis was a good thing so that we knew what the heck was going on with her, it doesnt make it any easier to deal with.
She has seemingly lost about 25% of her vision in one eye. She never knows when she is going to lose sensation in a limb, or lose her balance, or start forgetting things due to MS symptoms.
one good thing is that she is responding well to treatment - but that treatment involves giving herself a shot every other day - and she hates needles. the other part of the treatment is a low dose chemotherapy session every few months that makes her lose some of her hair (and she's a child of the 80's, so hair is pretty important), and makes her feel like crap for several days each time.

proceeds go to the MS Society, which funds research into new treatments, provides services to people with MS, and advocates for more research funding and defends the rights of those disabled by this disease.

So thank you for supporting this cause. And my greatest thanks of course go to Dibroc for pulling this together.

you all freaking rock!

..sb