Hello :)

Welcome to my blog. This is all new to me, the blogging thing. I have had webpages/site before, I have an opendiary, I have been on facebook since Jan of '05, when it was still colleges only and I was at NIU. The blogging thing, this is kinda new to me.

I basically wanted to start a blog to introduce myself to other MSers out there, to tell my story, which is an interesting one... here is a link to a peak at part of it.. http://www.friendswithms.com/stemcells.htm .

Dealing with this thing day to day can be, at the very least, exasperating at times. Dealing with weather changes and how the heat and MS work, or rather, don't work together, the too many headaches, fatigue, memory issues, this, that, and the other things. Yes, it is a full time job unto itself. And I am in better shape than many others with MS, but as the article tells, I was once not in as good of shape as I am now, so I can feel for those who are worse off due to MS.

As much as I want to launch into stories about this and that, about the relationships lost because of misunderstanding of MS, about my use of coffee to help with fatigue, about how chocolate is a centerpiece of my life... I think I will wait on that. This is just an intro into the beginning of who I am thanks to MS, where I come from before MS came along, and where I hope to be one day working around the MS, because it isn't going anywhere.

Talk later,
Justin