Summer 2009

ChloeBentley

Anyway you look at it, it’s summer in DC! Look how long it’s been since I’ve been in this blog!! Meu Deus no ceu, nao posso acreditar!!

These days I have been spending a lot more time in town and the doggies are certainly happy about that. I have had the time to bundle up my delicious and to twitter about language stuff. Summer is great for catching up with things I could not do before the AY ended.

I also get to spend more time with my  babies, which is way overdue. Priorities are coming into sharp focus and  I am convinced that this is how it was always meant to be.  We are battling, but we’re all so happy to have each other. Life is good.

MS is BS is gearing up for the Capital Challenge Walk in DC and we’ll be walking. We’ve already done pretty well with fundraising. Rick’s musician friends all pitched in for a BBQ blues jam to benefit our team. It was historic, the music was perfect, and the rain relented and gave way to the summer sun.

Life is good.

A Pill for MS is Coming and then a cure….

I know this is a language blog, but it is also about me. So please indulge me in a moment on the laura side…..

I have to be hopeful. It is all I have. I was in Brazil last summer, nine hours on the plane away from my family, when I learned that my 21 year old daughter has MS. How could that possibly be? These days we watch many of her AAU basketball buddies with whom she played in high school battling it out in the ACC and Big East- Duke, UConn, Maryland. My little girl with the six foot wingspan and leopard print cane battles a different opponent and we are proud of her tenacious D.

This is MS Awareness month. Every hour someone else is diagnosed. They will feel sick, feel hot, feel cold, lose their balance, sleep a lot and then suffer amnesia. They will lose feeling in their feet and legs and then get sensation back and lose it again. They will feel the love of their friends and family and still feel very alone. They will inject themselves every other day with the hope that their treatment will be successful.

Yet this is MS Awareness month and look what I found out today:

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laneur/article/PIIS1474-4422(09)70017-1/fulltext

In April, we will be walking in Walk MS. We have hope that a pill is coming. A pill and then a cure. All of you who have MS or have loved ones who do, we walk for you, too. MS does not define us. One love, one heart.