I have not been on this forum for a long time. It is not because I prefer facebook. In fact I do not consider myself one of the faceliterati. I am functionally face-illiterate. I have always preferred this forum.
I just haven't got much faith anymore that I will find, here or anywhere, any MS magic bullets.
My MS is pretty much under control. My neurologist prescribed biotin, but I had already been on it for 2 years. It helps control my bowels, makes my hair and nails grow, my muscles seem to be able to get stronger, and in general I feel marginally better. I think I am one of those people who will die 'with' MS, rather than 'of' it.
I have been working very hard on a project. It is a blog, which contains a hundred or so letters which my Grandfather wrote, en route to Okinawa, and from Okinawa, during World War Two. He was in the Red Cross, and had left his wife and three children because he had messed up by having an affair with his secretary, and had to get out of town. But he wrote letters to his wife, about one every second day. Their marriage was preserved, resulting in, among other things, me. I only have the letters he wrote, as they were rediscovered in 2013 and not many of the letters to him exist, so it is a one-sided conversation. Nearly all of them are to my grandmother. He was 36, she a recent mother of three. They had a dog, who died. They bought a new house, and my Grandmother got a job. The effect of being in Okinawa, on him, was to make him grow up, and value very highly what he had back home.
He was in Okinawa from just after the American invasion in April 1945, to just after the war ended, in October 1945. There are letters starting when he left home, in October 1944, until his flight home from Okinawa.
The blog is at http://letters.sullivanweb.me.
